Faraday to Valentine Bartholomew   2 July 18421

R Institution | 2 July 1842

My dear Sir

Can you help my little friend & oblige with your Proxy[.]

Yours Gratefully & Truly | M. Faraday

V. Bartholomew Esq | &c &c &c

Valentine Bartholomew (1799-1879, DNB). Flower painter. He had been a subscriber of the London Orphan Asylum (see note 2, letter 1378) since 1840. See the 1842 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/2/10, p.49.

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