Thomas Phillipps to Faraday   13 March 18501

Michael Faraday Esq | Royal Institution London

MH 13 Mh 50

My dr Sir,

Will you allow me to introduce my Son in law to you the Revd Jno Fenwick2 & his wife3 my daughter, & to request yr good offices in obtaining for them Tickets for the Friday Evening Lectures while they stay in London. I take this opportunity of asking you whether I can transfer my right of Entrée to any other Gentleman during my absence from Town? I have been told it is sometimes done, but I had rather apply to you as the Fountain head.

With my best wishes for yr good health believe me always my dr Sir

Most sincerely yours TP

1
The original of this letter was enclosed in Phillipps to K.S.W. Fenwick, 13 March 1850, Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson e.385, f.65v.
2
John Edward Addison Fenwick (d.1903, age 78, GRO, CCD). Perpetual Curate of Needwood, 1853-1893.
3
Katherine Somerset Wyttenbach Fenwick, née Phillipps (d.1913, age 90, GRO). Phillipps’s third daughter; see his DNB entry.

Please cite as “Faraday2267,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2267