Alexander Johnston to Faraday   30 April 18421

My dear Sir

Enclosed is my proxy by which I give you my vote for Miller2 the boy whom you patronize. If it is not correct return it to me & I will correct it[.]

Yours truly | Alex. Johnston

19 Great Cumberland Place | 30 April 1842


Address: M. Faraday Esq | &c | Royal Institution

1
Alexander Johnston (1775-1849, DNB). Legal reformer, specialising in colonial law. He had been a subscriber from before 1826 of the Caledonian Asylum, Annual Report of the Caledonian Asylum for 1826. See note 1, letter 1389 and also letters 1391 and 1393.
2
William Lyon Miller (b.1835), whose deceased father had been born in Dundee, was elected to the Caledonian Asylum on 2 June 1842. Certificate of Petition number 334, Royal Caledonian Schools MS.

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