Faraday to James Cumming1   20 March 1846

Royal Institution | 20 March 1846

My dear Sir

I have taken a great liberty with you. Wishing to send a copy of my paper2 to you & other to Willis3 Whewell4 - the Society5 &c I have ventured to make them up into a parcel and send them addressed to you at the Philosophical Society. I hope in your kindness that you will not mind unpacking & sending off the copies to these parties yet it is rather a bold think [sic] to do[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Rev J. Cumming M.A | &c &c &c


Endorsed: Found in Gregory’s Outlines of Inorg. Chemistry (bought for Trin. Coll. Library) March 21, 1862, J. Edleston

1
James Cumming (1777–1861, ODNB). Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, 1815–1860.
2
Faraday (1846a, b, c), ERE19, 20 and 21.
3
Robert Willis (1800–1875, ODNB). Jacksonian Professor of Applied Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, 1837–1875.
4
William Whewell (1794–1866, ODNB). Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1841–1866. Primarily an historian and philosopher of science.
5
That is the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Please cite as “Faraday1846a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1846a