Faraday to Robert Murray   17 November 18451

Brighton | Monday

Dear Mr Murray

I want to work on Wednesday2[.] Can you let me have by 9 o clk on that morning an iron cone soft 2 inches in diameter at the base & its apex an angle of 90˚ or thereabouts ie a right angle3.

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Also a small cube of copper 1/4 of an inch in the side4 and a small roundish ball of bismuth about 1/4 of an [inch] in diameter5.

I do not want the great Magnet but any of the things you have ready send. Do not tell any body I am coming home[.]

Yours Truly | M. Faraday

1
Robert Murray (1798-1856, J.Chem.Soc.,1857, 10: 191). An employee of John Newman's.
2
That is 19 November 1845.
3
See Faraday, Diary, 19 November 1845, 4: 8299.
4
See ibid., 8301.
5
See ibid., 8297.

Please cite as “Faraday1787,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1787