Benjamin Collins Brodie to Faraday   15 December 18491

13 Albert Road | Regents Park | Decr. 15.

My dear Sir,

I received yesterday a note from Mr Brande, informing me that the Managers had requested him to undertake the course of Lectures2, which I had resigned3. This is the only intimation I have received that my letter to Mr Barlow had been read at the Board4.

In compliance, with what I understood to be your wish, I have entirely abstained from asking your advice or opinion on this matter, which otherwise I might have sought. Nor do I now write again to trouble you with it; But only to express to you my most grateful recollection of the kind interest you have taken in these lectures and in my other scientific occupations; to have enjoyed which, even for a time, I shall ever esteem one of the truest pleasures and advantages of my life.

Very sincerely yours | B.C. Brodie

Professor Faraday | Royal Institution

1
Dated on the basis that letter 2243 is the reply.
2
See RI MM, 11 December 1849, 10: 229.
3
See letters 2206, 2207, 2209, 2210 and 2215.
4
RI MM, 3 December 1849, 10: 226 notes the reading of Brodie’s letter.

Please cite as “Faraday2242,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2242