Faraday to Benjamin Humphrey Smart   16 December 18471

Royal Institution | 16 Decr. 1847

My dear Sir

The account I gave my friend Mr. Brodie2 of the great service of your instructions3 to me has made him desire that I should give him a note of introduction. I do so not with any idea that he presents a case parallel to mine but from the belief that in almost every case there is some things that are better for attention. However I leave you & him to develope what (if any thing) may be necessary asking you only to tell him freely what he may require & your terms[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

B.H. Smart Esq | &c &c

1
Benjamin Humphrey Smart (1786-1872, DNB). Writer and teacher on elocution.
2
Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880, DSB). Chemist.
3
Smart had helped Faraday with his elocution. See Bence Jones (1870a), 1, 420; 2: 113. See also Memorandum to Peel, 31 March 1835, volume 2, letter 775 and Faraday to Abbott, 25 September 1817, volume 1, letter 79.

Bibliography

BENCE JONES, Henry (1870a): The Life and Letters of Faraday, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London.

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