Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   27 January 18481

Royal Institution | 27 Jany 1847 [sic]

My dear Miss Coutts

Our managers had no doubt of the fitness of confirming their first intention2[.] Neither have I any doubt. What I said was not so much because I thought it necessary but because a few thought the changes might slightly affect the character of the evenings - which character I desired to impress upon the minds of all we hoped to keep unchanged.

Ever Yours faithfully | M. Faraday

1
This letter is black-edged. See note 10, letter 2046.
2
See RI MM, 17 January 1848, 10: 56, where the Managers' agreed to admit ladies to every part of the lecture theatre at Friday Evening Discourses. This was confirmed at the following meeting, RI MM, 24 January 1848, 10: 57.

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