Robert Walker to Faraday   5 May 1847

My dear Sir

I fear that I must have expressed myself indistinctly with regard to the day of your visit of inspection¹.

Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays are the days of my public Lecture which commences at one. So that with preparation & delivery I should be especially occupied during the whole of the period of your stay. On either of the other three days of the week I can arrange my work so as to be at your command. Could you come on Thursday the 13th?² That day being Ascension day is a holiday here & brings no other duties than Church Services which commence at the early hour of 1/2 past seven & so leave me quite free for the remainder of the day.

Perhaps it will be most simple if, when you come, you proceed at once to my Lecture Room at the Clarendon Buildings Broad Street: I will there look out for you. If you proceed from the Station per Omnibus specify Broad Street or in their obstinate stupidity the drivers may take you in the oppt direction to the Printing Press.

I am My dear Sir | Very faithfully yours | Rob Walker

41 St. Giles | Oxford | May 5, 1847