Faraday to Gideon Algernon Mantell   18 April 1845

R Institution | 18 April 1845

Dear Mantel

Allways glad & honored to see you here & your boy1 is a worthy fellow as I know both by what I saw of him at the Microscope & at the Bridge2. His working entitles him by right to come to the Evening3.

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

G.A. Mantell Esq | &c &c &c

1
Reginald Neville Mantell (1827-1857, Curwen (1940), 64, Spokes (1927), 251). Engineer.
2
Reginald Neville Mantell worked for Brunel on the construction of the Hungerford suspension bridge. Curwen (1940), 184. Faraday attended the opening of the bridge on 1 May 1845, ibid.,194.
3
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".

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 “Faraday1714,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1714