Faraday to Isabella Erskine Plummer1   16 May 1846

Mr Faraday hastens to return his grateful thanks to Miss Plummer for her kindness2[.] He was at the Aqua Albuta with Sir Humphry Davy at the time referred to[.]

Royal Institution | 16 May 1846

1
Isabella Erskine Plummer (d.1881, age 74, GRO). Of independent means (see 1841 census, TNA HO107/675/1/38, p.20) and a subscriber to Faraday’s lectures.
2
This refers to the gift to the Royal Institution by Plummer of a piece of the oak tree in Rome under which the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595, ER) sat. RI MM, 18 May 1846, 9: 390.

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