Faraday to William Ker Reid   27 January 18451

R Institution | Jany 27 1845

My Dear Brother

I am glad I have received your note so soon, for today our Managers have been reviewing the Friday Evening regulations & we shall all have to be careful & regular. You will probably see by the papers that the Lecture room doors will not be opened on Friday Evenings before 1/2 past 8 o clk2 but any who should by chance or accident be there earlier can wait in the Ante lecture room.

Yours affectionately | M. Faraday

W.K. Reid Esq | &c &c &c

1
William Ker Reid (1787-1868, Reid, C.L. (1914)). Silversmith and a brother in law of Faraday.
2
RI MM, 27 January 1845, 9: 325. For a discussion of the formalisation of Friday Evening Discourses see Forgan (1977), 216-7.

Bibliography

FORGAN, Sophie (1977): The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1840-1873, University of London (Westfield College) PhD thesis.

Please cite as “Faraday1675,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1675