Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   8 February 1848

R Institution | 8 Feby 1848

Dear Miss Coutts

I do not know whether it is worth while telling you that if Mr. Pellatt1 succeeds as well next Friday Evening2 as he did last year3 we shall have a very interesting evening. He will have a Glass furnace & man at work in the Lecture room[.]

Ever faithfully yours | M. Faraday

1
Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863, DNB). Glass manufacturer.
2
Pellatt's Friday Evening Discourse was postponed from 11 February 1848 due to a fire in the lecture theatre. See Athenaeum, 26 February 1848, p.220 for an account of his Friday Evening Discourse of 18 February 1848 "Curiosities of Glass - Manufacture".
3
See Athenaeum, 27 February 1847, p.234 for an account of Pellatt's Friday Evening Discourse of 12 February 1847 "On the Manufacture of Ornamental Glass".

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