William Pole to Faraday   17 November 18521

28 Cambridge Square | Hyde Park

My dear Faraday

Very many thanks for your very kind offer of the St Pauls Ticket2 but strictly “I am married & therefore I cannot come”3. The truth is that I was married this very day & I didn’t wish “the marriage feast to furnish forth the cold funeral meats”4. It has given me however an opportunity of offering the ticket to a Revd divine5 who has come all the way from Yorkshire to tie the knot.

Yours very sincerely | Wm Pole

1
Dated on the basis of Pole’s marriage. GRO.
2
For the funeral the following day of the field marshal, former Prime Minister and Master of Trinity House, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852, ODNB). See Milman to Faraday, 3 November 1852 and Faraday to Milman, 3 November 1852, letters 2583 and 2584, volume 4.
3
Luke 14: 20.
4
A reference to William Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’, I, 2, 179-80.
5
Robert Pulleine (1806–1868, AC). Rector of Kirkby Wiske, 1845–1868.

Please cite as “Faraday2597a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2597a