Faraday to John Murray   16 June 18481

R Institution | Friday 16 June

My dear Sir

I discourse tonight at 9 o'clock2 and lecture tomorrow at 3 o'clk3 both for the last time this season. I send a couple of admissions for both which you can either fill up or destroy. It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity of doing any thing you ask me[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

John Murray Esq | &c &c &c

1
Dated on the basis of the reference to the Friday Evening Discourse which was the only one he ever gave on 16 June.
2
See Athenaeum, 8 July 1848, p.682 for an account of Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 16 June 1848 "On the Conversion of Diamond into Coke".
3
This was Faraday's final lecture in his "Course of seven lectures on the Allied Phaenomena of the Chemical and Electrical Forces" (for his notes see RI MS F4 J9).

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