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Faraday to James Silk Buckingham   28 December 18411

R Institution | 28 Decr. 1841

My dear Sir

My own proxy2 being engaged I have been searching about for one for you3 & happily have obtained one, which I now send wishing you all success in your exertions[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Jas. S. Buckingham Esq | &c &c &c

1
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855, DNB). Writer and traveller.
2
This was to provide a place for an orphan in the London Orphan Asylum in Clapton, founded in 1813, of which Faraday became a subscriber in 1831. See Faraday to Roberts, 24 January 1832, volume 2, letter 533. Each subscriber had one or more votes (depending on the size of their subscription) for suitable candidates for a place in the orphanage. Votes could be transferred by proxy between subscribers. For accounts of the London Orphan Asylum see Alvey (1990) and Bache (1839), 58-65.
3
Buckingham had been a subscriber of the London Orphan Asylum since 1841. See the 1842 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/2/10, p.62.

Bibliography

ALVEY, Norman (1990): Education by Election: Reed's School, Clapton and Watford, St Albans.

BACHE, Alexander Dallas (1839): Report on Education in Europe, to the Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans, Philadelphia.

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