Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas to Faraday   December 18491

Mon cher ami

M Milne Edwards membre de l’Institut et mon meilleur ami croit avoir besoin d’une lettre d’Introduction auprès de Vous. Je ne la croyais pas nécessaire, mais j’obéis à son désir. Il auroit besoin dans un interérêt d’enseignement, puisqu’il me remplace comme doyen de la faculté des sciences, de bien connaitre premièrement l’organisation de Vos sociétés polytechniques et adélaide, secondement celle de l’école de Wolwich; Il ne peut mieux s’adresser qu’à vous et je serais très reconnaissant des moyens que Vous lui donnerez pour prendre une idée juste de ces deux genres d’établissements.

Mille amitiés nouvelles | A. Dumas

TRANSLATIONMy dear friend,

Mr Milne Edwards, member of the Institut and my best friend, believes he needs a letter of introduction to you. I did not think it necessary, but I am complying with his wishes. In the interests of education, as he is replacing me as dean of the faculty of sciences, he would like to get to know firstly the organisation of your polytechnic institutes and the Adelaide [Gallery], secondly, that of the Woolwich Academy; he could not do better than to address himself to you and I would be most grateful for any means you can give him to get a proper idea of these two types of establishments.

A thousand renewed best wishes | A. Dumas

Dated on the basis that letter 2246 is the reply.

Please cite as “Faraday2235,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2235