Faraday to George Biddell Airy   29 October 1849

Royal Institution | 29 Octr. 1849

My dear Airy

Am I to hope that Barlow is not mistaken and that there is a possibility of our having you at one of our Friday Evenings next season?1 The thought is so pleasant to me that however small the chance may be I cannot resist helping to nurse it a little for I do not know any thing that would give me greater pleasure or do more honor to the Season here[.]

With kindest remembrances to Mrs Airy I am My dear Sir | Ever Yours faithfully | M. Faraday

G.B. Airy Esq | &c &c &c

1
See Athenaeum,23 March 1850, pp.315-7 for an account of Airy’s Friday Evening Discourse of 15 March 1850, “On the present State and Prospects of the Science of Terrestrial Magnetism”.

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