Faraday to Rowland Hill   22 August 18401

R. Institution | 22 Aug 1840

Sir

I will meet you at any time between 1/2 ps 9 and 2 o clk but a time is valuable both to you & me I will leave you to state what hour I am to be with you hoping to hear of that hour as soon as convenient to you2[.]

I am Sir | Your obedient Servant | M. Faraday

Rowland Hill Esq | &c &c &c

1
Rowland Hill (1795-1879, DNB). Inventor of Penny Postage.
2
This was to discuss the ink to be used on postage stamps and in obliterating them. See Hill's Diary, 22 August 1840, Post Office Archive, POST100 / 1, pp.122-3. They met again on 26 August 1840, ibid, 124. See also Hill (1880), 1: 402.

Bibliography

HILL, Rowland (1880): The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, 2 volumes, London.

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