Henry William Pickersgill to Faraday   22 January 18461

Soho Square Jany 22 | 1846

My dear Faraday

Not being myself a regular member of the Royal Institution I do not know whether I should be acting against the rules in bringing my son2 with me tomorrow evening to hear your instructive discourse3 if so, may I beg of you to favor me with an admission for him for the evening? Hoping you will not think this request unfortunate Believe me my dear Faraday

ever faithfully your's | H.W. Pickersgill

M. Faraday Esq | &c &c

1
Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875, DNB). Portrait painter.
2
Either Henry Hall Pickersgill (d.1861, age 49, GRO; painter, see DNB under Henry William Pickersgill) or J.C. Pickersgill (see Faraday to Pickersgill, 8 February 1834, letter 698, volume 2; otherwise unidentified).
3
See Athenaeum, 31 January 1846, p.126 for an account of Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 23 January 1846, "Recent researches into the correlated phenomena of magnetism and light".

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