Faraday to Charles Babbage   23 April 1845

R Institution | 23 April 1845

Dear Babbage

The address I spoke of is Robson & Highouse | Marine Signal Light Manufactory | Commercial Road, | Limehouse1[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

1
Babbage needed this information for a ballet he had written entitled "Alethes & Iris", a draft of which is in BL add MS 37193, f.196-203. On f.200v Babbage noted the information he had received from Faraday in this letter and in letter 1719. See Hyman (1982), 205-8 for a discussion of this and for the text of the ballet. See also Babbage (1864), 254-8.

Bibliography

BABBAGE, Charles (1864): Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, London.

HYMAN, Anthony (1982): Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer, Oxford.

Please cite as “Faraday1718,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1718