Faraday to Roderick Impey Murchison   21 April 1845

R Institution | 21 April 1845

My dear Sir

With many thanks I return the minerals & the book & sheets I trust all perfectly safe1. I shall hope to hear much from you on these Uralian Mountains & their contents on the 6th June2. You were so kind as to speak of a sword which I ought to have3 - & so I will send on Thursday the 8th of May for it & any illustrations of steel ores &c you may think fit to lend me for the Lecture of the 10th May4.

Ever Your Very Obliged | M. Faraday

R.I. Murchison Esq | &c &c &c

2
See Athenaeum, 14 June 1845, pp.591-2 for an account of Murchison's Friday Evening Discourse of 6 June 1845, "On Russia and the Ural Mountains".
4
That is Faraday's fifth lecture on "Iron - strength, magnetism" 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: 1363-8. See p.1367 for Faraday's reference to the sword.

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