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Thomas Graham to Faraday   5 March 18511

4 Gordon Sqr | Wednesday March 5.

Dear Mr. Faraday

Our friend Hofmann has consented at the eleventh hour to be proposed at the Royal Society & will I have no doubt be highly gratified by your name to his certificate2.

Very truly Yours | Tho. Graham

M. Faraday Esq | &c &c

1
Dated on the basis that Hofmann’s certificate for the Royal Society was first read on 6 March 1851.
2
Faraday did sign Hofmann’s certificate. RS MS Cert 9.275. Hofmann was elected on 5 June 1851.

Please cite as “Faraday2390,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2390