Faraday to George Biddell Airy   15 June 1841

Royal Institution | 15 June 1841

My dear Sir

If you can allow my friend Mr Reid1 to see the instruments at the observatory it will be a great favour to me as to him also. I hope my letter does not come at a wrong time but he is from Newcastle & his time is very limited and I cannot lay my hands on yours2 just now to see what the hours are. I would have come with him but that I cannot arrange my Woolwich hour for that purpose[.]

Ever Dear Sir | Most Truly Yours | M. Faraday

The | Astronomer Royal | &c &c &c


Endorsed: Mr Reid saw the Obs. R.M.3

1
Possibly David Reid (1792-1868, Reid, C.L. (1914)). Husband of Elizabeth Reid, née Barnard (1794-1870, GRO), a sister of Sarah Faraday. Given in Reid, C.L. (1914) as a silversmith, but White, F. (1847), 114 also lists him as a chronometer and watch maker.
2
Airy to Faraday, 26 June 1840, letter 1296, volume 2.
3
Robert Main (1808-1878, DNB). Chief Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1835-1860.

Bibliography

WHITE, Francis (1847): General Directory of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield.

Please cite as “Faraday1352,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1352