Warren De La Rue to Faraday   23 March 1850

110 Bunhill Row | March 23rd 1850

My dear Sir

I enclose a printed table of Nobert’s lines arranged in series. The single band on your slide1 is the 1/24th of a Parisian inch divided into 500 lines.

On the envelope enclosing your note for him you have directed for Paris, but M. Nobert is a german residing at Griefswald in Pomerania; would be troubling you too much, as you have been kind enough to acknowledge his little present, to write another envelope directed as above; as you have left the present one unsealed I will transfer the enclosure?

I was not aware last Friday2 week that my name had been proposed for the Royal Society and that you had been good enough to sign the nomination paper3, otherwise I would have taken that opportunity of thanking you; I beg that you will now accept my best thanks for your great kindness; I will endeavour by my work to prove myself worthy of it when my leisure permits me to devote myself to pure science.

I remain | Yours Very truly | Warren De la Rue

Michael Faraday Esq | &c &c &c

Referred to in letter 2269.
That is 15 March 1850.
RS MS Cert 9.252. Faraday signed from personal knowledge. De La Rue was elected a Fellow on 6 June 1850.

Please cite as “Faraday2273,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2273