Faraday to Gideon Algernon Mantell   27 January 1845

R Institution | 27 Jany 1845

Dear Mantell

I have great pleasure in sending you the tickets1 & as long as I have the power shall rejoice to do so on your expressing any desire to come[.] My memory is so treacherous that I cannot promise to remember but hope whenever you feel inclined you will remind me[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Dr. Mantell | &c &c &c

I conclude that you son2 is above 15 years of age. Regulations have been passed today which our Managers intend to make stringent3. | MF

1
Presumably for Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 31 January 1845, "On the liquefaction and solidification of gases" (see Lit.Gaz., 8 February 1845, p.89 for an account) which Mantell attended. Curwen (1940), 191.
2
Reginald Neville Mantell (1827-1857, Curwen (1940), 64, Spokes (1927), 251). Engineer.
3
Apart from the opening time of the lecture theatre (see letter 1675), these regulations are not detailed in RI MM, 27 January 1845, 9: 325

Bibliography

CURWEN, E. Cecil (1940): The Journal of Gideon Mantell Surgeon and Geologist, London.

SPOKES, Sidney (1927): Gideon Algernon Mantell, Surgeon and Geologist, London.

Please cite as “Faraday1676,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1676