Arthur Aikin to Faraday   26 April 18491

7 Bloomsbury Square | 26 April

Dear Faraday

My niece Mrs Le Breton2 with her husband3 & family, as well as my sister4 who is an inmate of theirs, hearing that you are become a temporary resident in Wimbledon are very desirous of showing you & Mrs Faraday all neighbourly attention. With this view she will take the liberty of calling on Mrs F & has desired me to send you this notice in order that when she calls she may not seem to be altogether a stranger[.]

Yours very truly | Ar. Aikin

M. Faraday Esq

1
Dated on the basis that Faraday was at Wimbledon at this time. See letters 2176, 2178 and 2182. See also Margery Ann Reid’s recollection of the visit in her diary of April 1853, RI MS F13B, pp.11-12.
2
Anna Letitia Le Breton, née Aikin (1808-1885, DNB). Writer.
3
Philip Hemery Le Breton (d.1884, age 77, GRO). Barrister who married Anna Letitia Aikin in 1833. See DNB under her entry.
4
Lucy Aikin (1781-1864, DNB). Writer.

Please cite as “Faraday2171,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2171