Faraday to John Barlow   14 October 18511

Park end Cottage | Tuesday 14 Oct

My dear Barlow

I was talking with Scott Russel[l]2 at the Exhibition about the American Yacht her sailing3 &c and said I thought he should give us an Evening on the subject of sails & their principles in that instance. He assented far more freely than I expected. Do you approve or not if so good if not let me know & I will back out properly. I think it would be a good subject & that he would do it well4.

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

1
Dated on the basis that Faraday was staying in this cottage at the time. See letter 2462.
2
John Scott Russell (1808-1882, DNB). Naval architect.
3
This was the schooner ‘America’ which won the prize of the Royal Yacht Squadron at the Cowes Regatta in August 1851. See Folkard (1901), 373-4.
4
Russell (1852), Friday Evening Discourse of 6 February 1852. At this Discourse a model of the ‘America’ was exhibited, p.119.

Bibliography

FOLKARD, Henry Coleman (1901): The Sailing Boat, 5th edition, London.

RUSSELL, John Scott (1852): “On Wave-line Ships and Yachts”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 115-9.

Please cite as “Faraday2467,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2467