John Percy to Faraday   16 December 1851

Museum Dec 16 / 51.

My dear Dr Faraday,

I regret that I was absent when you called yesterday. I herewith send a piece of nickel such as I understand you to require1. A small cube may easily be made out of it by filing. I have prepared it today by fusing Evans & Askin’s2 nickel with 5/100 of oxide under plate-glass. If you require a larger piece I shall have great pleasure in making one 1lb weight or more. I have a flat ingot cast weighing 14ozs which is quite at your service; but it has not been fused with oxide. I shall always be happy to prepare anything in the metallurgical line you may need.

Ever yours sincerely, | & with great respect, | John Percy

Dr Faraday

1
See Faraday, Diary, 20 December 1851, 6: 11928 for Faraday’s experiment mapping the magnetic field of this nickel.
2
Evans presumably took over running the metal supply firm established in Birmingham by Charles Askin (d.1847, J.Chem.Soc.,1847, 1: 149-50). See also Faraday to Lloyd, 14 October 1848, letter 2114, volume 3.

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