Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   8 February 18471

R Institution | 8 Feby 1847

My dear Miss Coutts

I am happy to say that Lady Prudhoe will keep you company in being proposed as M.R.I. and perhaps some other ladies also2. I have written carefully to Mr. Wheatstone but have heard nothing from him yet3[.]

Ever faithfully yours | M. Faraday

Miss A.B. Coutts | &c &c &c

1
This letter is black-edged. See letter 1949.
2
See note 2, letter 1950 for Burdett Coutts's election. Lady Prudhoe was elected by immediate ballot on 5 April 1847. RI MS GM, 5 April 1847, 5: 355-6. No other ladies than Burdett Coutts and Lady Prudhoe were elected that day.

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