Faraday to William Alexander Baillie Hamilton   30 August 18471

Royal Institution | 30 Aug 1847

Sir

I regret that I cannot at present accede to the request contained in your letter of the 26th instant2. The state of my health is one reason but there are others which I am too weary to write you at present but you will find them in a letter which I wrote to Mr Ward3 about three months ago4 and to which I beg to direct the attention of My Lords Commissioners and yourself. I may be allowed to express a little surprise that I have not yet received any reply either to that letter or to my former report (in conjunction with Capt. Brandreth5) on this particular telegraph6.

I have the honour to be | Sir | Your Most Obedient Humble Servant | M. Faraday

Captn W.A.B. Hamilton R.N. | Secretary | &c &c &c &c | Admiralty

1
William Alexander Baillie Hamilton (1803-1881, B1). Second Secretary of the Admiralty, 1845-1855.
3
Henry George Ward (1797-1860, DNB). First Secretary of the Admiralty, 1846-1849.
4
Referred to in letter 2009.
5
Henry Rowland Brandreth (d.1848, age 54, GRO, Gent.Mag., 1848, 29: 672). An officer in the Royal Engineers.
6
See note 4, letter 2009.

Please cite as “Faraday2016,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2016