Faraday to Henry Collen   27 February 18411

Royal Institution | 27, Feby 1841

My dear Sir

Mrs. Faraday & myself thank you most heartily for the proof of your very beautiful work2. It is really a wonderful result to come out quickly from the first thought & shews how much in the application as well as in the knowledge of electricity we may expect[.]

Ever Your Obliged | M. Faraday

Henry Collen Esq | &c &c &c

1
Henry Collen (1800-1879, Schaaf (1992), 183, 186, B4). Calotypist in London.
2
Endorsed here: "Specimen of electrotype".

Bibliography

SCHAAF, Larry J. (1992): Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, & the Invention of Photography, New Haven.

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