Faraday to Thomas Joseph Pettigrew   11 April 18451

R Institution | 11 April 1845

Dear Sir

Can the bearer have the Egyptian specimen2?

Ever Yours | M. Faraday


Royal Institution | April 1845

Admit | Mrs. Pettigrew3 & the Misses Pettigrews4 to my Lectures | M. Faraday

1
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (1791-1865, DNB). Surgeon and antiquary.
2
Faraday needed this for his lecture of 12 April 1845 on "Gold - Platina - malleability, ductility" which was the first of his "Course of Eight Lectures on Certain Metals and Metallic Properties". For his notes for this course see RI MS F4 J5. For an account of this lecture see Lond.Med.Gaz., 1845, 1: 47-52. He acknowledged Pettigrew's loan on p.48. See also letter 1695.
3
Elizabeth Pettigrew (d.1854, age 68, GRO). Wife of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
4
Daughters of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and Elizabeth Pettigrew.

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