Faraday to William Vaughan   18 April 18451

R Institution | 1845 18 April

My dear Sir

We have no lecture on the evening of the 19th of April & I am in doubt about your intention[.] However I have left admission with the porter for this Evening (the 18th)2 and also for the 3 o clk lecture tomorrow3 thinking that may be what you refer to[.] Many thanks for the American Transactions[.]

Ever Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Wm. Vaughan Esq | &c &c &c

1
William Vaughan (1752-1850, DNB). Merchant and author.
2
See Athenaeum, 26 April 1845, p.414 for an account of Edward Cowper's Friday Evening Discourse of 18 April 1845, "On the Hungerford Suspension Bridge".
3
That is Faraday's second lecture on "Copper - colour, conduction" of his "Course of Eight Lectures on Certain Metals and Metallic Properties". For his notes for this course see RI MS F4 J5. This lecture was reported in Lond.Med.Gaz., 1845, 1: 132-7.

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