Faraday to John Britten   23 March 18401

Royal Institution | 23 Mar 1840

My dear Sir

I have called twice at your office to learn how much we were indebted to you for cards for Williams 2 and once I have applied to your clerk when he promised to let me know but I have not yet obtained the information so that I have been obliged to ask another person what the probable cost would be that I might be able to tell Mrs. Williams friends[.] Let me have a bill of the expence by post or in any other way that will secure me the information[.]

Ever Your Obliged | M. Faraday

- Britten Esq | &c &c &c

1
John Britten. City measurer of wool cloth (POD) and a subscriber to the London Orphan Asylum since 1830. See the 1840 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/2/9, p.58.
2
See note 2, letter 533. J.S. Williams (whose deceased father had been a carpenter and builder from Wrotham and whose mother had ten children) was elected to the London Orphan Asylum in 1840. See the 1840 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/2/9, p.34.

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