Faraday to Sophia Romilly   13 June 18461

R Institution | 13 June 1846

My dear Mrs. Romilly

All the day long I have [been] striving to reach your house & could not because of the lecture2 & friends who kept me after it, & my wife also has been prevented from calling for me by having to do part of my friend work here [sic]. I wished to learn if Mrs. Marcet was still with you & (remembering a wish expressed by her on a former occasion3) to say that on Tuesday4 next at 11 o clk I should be shewing the diamagnetic & other phenomena to a few friends in the Lecture room. There will not be more than 12 or 15 persons and if inclined & well enough to come My old friend would find herself quite at home[.]

Ever Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday


Address: Mrs. Romilly | Stratton Street

1
Sophia Romilly née Marcet (b.1809, Polkinghorn (1993), 36). Daughter of Jane Marcet.
2
This was the last lecture of Faraday's "Course of eight lectures on Electricity and Magnetism". For his notes see RI MS F4 J6 and for an account see Lond.Med.Gaz., 1846, 3: 523-9.
3
Possibly a reference to Marcet's attendance at Faraday's demonstration of the magneto-optical effect on 30 March 1846. See letters 1852 and 1853.
4
That is 16 June 1846.

Bibliography

POLKINGHORN, Bette (1993): Jane Marcet: An Uncommon Women, Aldermaston.

Please cite as “Faraday1888,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1888