Faraday to Charles Wentworth Dilke   29 March 18501

Brighton | Friday 29 Mar.

My dear Sir

Your letter finds me here & gives me hardly time to say that I cannot be in town next Wednesday2 or I would have been at the Adelphi[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C.W. Dilke Esq | &c &c &c


Endorsed: 1850

Charles Wentworth Dilke (1810-1869, DNB). Active member of the Society of Arts and a member of the Executive Committee of the 1851 Great Exhibition.
That is 3 April 1850. This was the day of election for members of the Council of the Society of Arts. See RSA MS, Council Minutes, 27 March 1850, 2: 211 which instructed that the nominations be sent out to members instantly.

Please cite as “Faraday2275,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 18 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2275