Ɛpsilon

1Faraday to Edmund Belfour2   3 March 1849

Royal Institution | 3 Mar 1849

Sir

I beg to return you my sincere thanks for the favour of an admission to the Lectures at the College of Surgeons3[.] I hope to profit by some of them though the appointed days & hours are in very frequent collision with my duties here & at Woolwich4[.]

I am Sir | Your Very Obliged Servant | M. Faraday

Edd. Belfour Esq | &c &c &c

1
This letter is black-edged. See letter 2153.
2
Edmund Belfour (d.1865, age 75, B1). Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1814-1865.
3
This was a set of twenty four lectures by Richard Owen on the “Generation and Development of Animals” which commenced on Tuesday 13 March 1849 and continued on succeeding Thursdays, Saturdays and Tuesdays at 4pm. See Lancet, 1849, 1: 247.
4
That is Faraday’s lectures at the Royal Military Academy.

Please cite as “Faraday2158,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2158