Faraday to Thomas Phillipps   11 June 1846

Royal Institution | 11 June 1846

My dear Sir Thomas

I understand you has a M.S. which Professor Bonanini1 wishes most earnestly to see2 & that you have said you would most willingly shew it to him if he came to England. In respect of this MS. I have been asked whether I could give a letter of introduction to you, for a lady, a friend of Professor Bonanini's, that she might examine the MS. & report to the Professor[.] Under these circumstances I thought I had better write to you first. The lady is Mrs. Young and is for a week or two with Miss Plummer3 20 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square[.]

I am My dear Sir Thomas | Ever Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Sir Thos. Phillipps Bart | &c &c &c

1
Francesco Bonaini (1806-1874, DBI). Italian historian.
2
See Young to Phillipps, 17 June 1846, Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson d.141, f.206-7 where she said she would like to see MS Payne 2582 Statuta Civitatis Pisanae an 1186 Codex Menbrancius Scali XII fol for a book of Chronicles of Pisa on which Bonaini was working (probably Bonaini (1854-7)). She did not, in the end, see the MS; Young to Phillipps, 19 September 1846, Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson d.141, f.216.
3
Unidentified.

Bibliography

BONAINI, Francesco (1854-7): Statuti inediti della città di Pisa dal XII al XIV secolo, 3 volumes, Firenze.

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