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Faraday to Edward Magrath   25 May 1849

R Institution | 25 May 1849

Dear Magrath

I send the tickets[.]

Some person has sent me the enclosed. They have put your name instead of Mr. Dances1 I suppose2:-

Do you know what Arnett’s3 books of the Ancients is?4 Can you tell me when you & I were first acquaint? and whether & when we were members of Dorset Street Society?5

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday


Endorsed by Magrath: Answered the same day see over leaf

1
William Dance (1755-1840, DNB). One of the founders of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
2
Arnett (1837), 203-5 gave a short account of Faraday’s life (derived largely from Anon (1835)). On p.204 Magrath, rather than Dance, is stated to have given Faraday the tickets to attend Davy’s lectures at the Royal Institution in 1812.
3
John Andrews Arnett. Pseudonym of John Hannett. Otherwise unidentified.
4
Arnett (1837).
5
That is the City Philosophical Society on which see James (1992b).

Bibliography

ANON (1835): “Shewing how the Tories and the Whigs extend their patronage to Science and Literature”, Fraser’s Mag., 12: 104-8.

ARNETT, John Andrews (1837): An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients: with a history of the art of bookbinding, from the times of the Greeks and Romans to the present day, London.

JAMES, Frank A.J.L. (1992b): “Michael Faraday, The City Philosophical Society and the Society of Arts”, Roy. Soc. Arts J. 140: 192-199.

Please cite as “Faraday2187,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2187