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Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   29 December 1846

R Institution | 29 Decr. 1846

My dear Miss Coutts

I have received, and thank you heartily for, the fine Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett1 that true old English Gentleman. You must have great pleasure in regarding such a remembrance of him[.]

Ever Your | Very faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Miss A.B. Coutts

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Francis Burdett (1770-1844, DNB). Politician and father of Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts. This portrait is in RI MS F1 I54.

Please cite as “Faraday1942,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1942