Faraday to Duchess of Northumberland   26 March 18521

Royal Institution | 26 Mar 1852

Madam

I had hoped to have the honor personally of offering my sincere thanks tomorrow Evening for Your Grace’s kindness in remembering one who is so little known to your Grace but regret to say that circumstances have arisen which preclude even a hope of, at any hour being able to make my appearance for the performance of that most agreeable duty2[.]

I have the honor to | Madam | Your Graces most | humble faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Her Grace | The Duchess of Northumberland

1
Eleanor, Duchess of Northumberland, née Lupus (1820-1911, CP). Married the Duke of Northumberland, 25 August 1842.
2
This appears to be Faraday declining an invitation to attend a soirée at Northumberland House. He had attended a soirée there on 13 March 1852. See Curwen (1940), 284.

Bibliography

CURWEN, E. Cecil (1940): The Journal of Gideon Mantell Surgeon and Geologist, London.

Please cite as “Faraday2508,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2508