Faraday to William Charles Macready   3 October 18421

Royal Institution | 3 Octr 1842

My dear Sir

I cannot receive your kindness in silence and though fearful of teasing you with an unnecessary note must say that I am very grateful for your remembrance of me2[.] It is that which makes the charm of the gift[.] With sincerest respects to Mrs. Macready3 I am my dear Sir

Your Grateful Servant | M. Faraday

W.C. Macready Esq | &c &c &c

1
William Charles Macready (1793-1873, DNB). Actor and theatre manager.
2
Possibly this was an admission to the Drury Lane Theatre which had reopened with Macready as manager (see Macready (1875), 521). Macready, a few years earlier, had sent Faraday such an admission for the Covent Garden Theatre. See Faraday to Macready, 6 October 1837, letter 1040, volume 2.
3
Catherine Frances Macready, née Atkins (d.1852, age c45, GRO. See also DNB under William Charles Macready). Married Macready in 1823.

Bibliography

MACREADY, William Charles (1875): Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters, London.

Please cite as “Faraday1434,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1434