Tom Taylor¹ to Faraday   17 July 1851²

3 Figtree Court | Temple | July 17

Dear Professor Faraday

Am I the most impudent man in the world, in presuming so far on your kindness, (shown at the time I gave once a Friday evg lecture at the Royal Institution on a subject very little in the ordinary track of the lectures there³) as to present to you Il Dottere Polli⁴, Professor of Chemistry at the Scola Mechanica (or School of Industrial Arts) at Milan & compiler of the “Annali di Chimica Applicata alla medicina” who is here observing all that London & the Great Exhibition have to show bearing on his speciality, or chemistry applied to the arts & industrial Processes.

He is most anxious for the honour of an introduction to you & for an opportunity if possible of hearing one of your lectures. Forgive me, if I am taking an unwarrantable liberty - but I have so vivid a recollection of your great kindness, that I am emboldened to do what I am doing. I have written to Mr Barlow to ask for a ticket, in the event there being an opportunity of hearing a lecture.

But I thought I might make the request to you also, in the event of Mr Barlow not being able.

Most truly yours | Tom Taylor

Professor Faraday | &c &c &c | Royal Institution