Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   26 February 1840

Mr Faraday offers his respects to Miss Burdett Coutts and hopes to be forgiven for endeavouring to obtain her Proxy and interest for the enclosed deserving case to come on at the next Election of the infant orphan Asylum1.

Royal Institution | 26 Feby 1840

1
See note 2, letter 533. Coutts had been a subscriber of the London Orphan Asylum since 1837. See the 1840 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/2/9, p.77.

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