Charles Barry1 to Faraday   2 July 18502

Royal Institution | Tuesday aft

Dear Faraday

I am very anxious to see you touching the acoustics at the New House of Commons3[.] I hear you are coming to Town tomorrow for the Levee4 and so could attend any appointment you would have the goodness to make for tomorrow (as time presses) either to see you here or at my own house and either before or after yours Court homages[.]

You see I am bold enough to assume that you will kindly assist me in this matter[.]

Yours very truly | Charles Barry

1
Charles Barry (1795-1860, DNB). Architect of the Houses of Parliament.
2
Dated on the basis of the references cited in notes 3 and 4.
3
On this see Crook and Port (1973), 623-4. Faraday gave evidence to the Select Committee on the New House of Commons on 15 July 1850. Parliamentary Papers,1850 <(650)> 15, p.iii.
4
Faraday attended the Levée on 3 July 1850. See PRO LC6 / 13.

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