George Ransome to Faraday   6 June 1851

Ipswich 1851 6mo 6

My dear Friend

I feel truly grateful for thy kindness - but it would be quite out of the question my presuming to include my own portrait in the series I am bringing out1[.] However it strikes me thy wish can be complied with in another way and which will not interfere with thy kind concession to my wishes. Last year some kind friends requested me to submit to the same ordeal I had induced so many to undergo and the Committee presented me with a few surplus copies one of which is quite at thy service and shall be forwarded today2 - I can assure thee I feel most grateful for thy kindness not only on my own account but also for the sake of others to whom I know thy Portrait will be valuable.

Believe me my dear friend | Ever truly thine | Geo Ransome

P.S. I will write to Maguire3 that he may arrange to have all ready for thee4[.]

1
That is of portraits of members of the Ipswich Museum of whom Faraday was one. See Letter 2424.
2
This lithograph is in RI MS F1 K35.
3
Thomas Herbert Maguire (1821-1895, Wood (1995), 337). Portraitist.
4
That is for his portrait of Faraday. See plate 6.

Bibliography

WOOD, Christopher (1995) Dictionary of British Art Volume IV: Victorian Painters, 3rd edition, Woodbridge.

Please cite as “Faraday2433,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2433