Faraday to Frederick Gye   24 May 1853

Royal Institution | 24 May 1853

My dear Sir

You are most kind - on returning home from the Geographical dinner1 (the first dinner of the kind I had been to for years) I found your enclosure[.] I would much rather have been with you2 than where I was but such was my fate. I did not leave home until 20’ to 7 o’clk but your note had not then arrived[.] This must be my excuse for not returning it last night[.]

If you have any further intention towards us, do not let it be this week or before Thursday week i.e the 2nd of June: it so happens that I am never at liberty on Saturdays and the other opera evenings before then are subject to appointments[.]

With kindest remembrances to Mrs. Gye3.

I am yours faithfully | M. Faraday

F. Gye Esq | &c &c &c

1
The Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society had been held at the Royal Institution prior to the dinner. See J.Roy.Geogr.Soc.,1853, 23: liii-lv.
2
Faraday would have heard Meyerbeer’s “Roberto di Diavola”. See Times, 23 May 1853, p.4, col. c.
3
Mrs Frederick Gye, née Hughes. Otherwise unidentified. See DNB under Frederick Gye.

Please cite as “Faraday2680,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2680