Faraday to Charles Barry1   31 March 18472

Hastings | Wednesday Evening

My dear Sir

I receive your note just in time to catch the post & give instructions to Mr. Anderson to convey the models & drawing to you. I hope he will find the right drawings & shall tell him to wait to hear if all is right[.]

Many thanks to you & Mr. Barry3 for your kind assistance - which I will report properly to the Managers[.] I only wish I had done the thing better but several times in the evening I felt the want of my memory.

Ever Truly Yours | with respects to Mrs4. & Miss Barry5 | M. Faraday

C. Barry Jur. Esq | &c &c

1
Charles Barry (1823-1900, B4). Architect.
2
Dated on the basis that Faraday gave a Friday Evening Discourse "On Mr. Barry's mode of Warming and Ventilating the new House of Lords" on 26 March 1847 (for an account of this Discourse see Athenaeum, 3 April 1847, pp.366-7).
3
Charles Barry (1795-1860, DNB). Architect of the New Houses of Parliament.
4
Sarah Barry, née Rowsell (d.1882, age 82, GRO). See B1 under Charles Barry. Married Barry in 1822.
5
Unidentified.

Please cite as “Faraday1969,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1969