Faraday to Elizabeth Reid   7 June 1853

Royal Institution | 7 June 1853

My dear Eliza

There remain three lectures here one on Thursday at 3 o’clk by Dr. Frankland on Chemistry of food 1 one by myself on Friday evening at 9 o’clk on Oxygen 2 - & one on Saturday at 3 o clk by Dr. Tyndall on Water 3. I send your admissions for all & shall be very happy to see Mr. Davis4 here[.]

Your Affectionate Unkle | M. Faraday

1
This was Franklands tenth and final lecture in his course on “Technological Chemistry” delivered on 9 June 1853. See RI MS GB 2: 77.
2
Faraday (1853c), Friday Evening Discourse of 10 June 1853.
3
This was Tyndall’s fourth and final lecture in his course on “Air and Water” delivered on 11 June 1853. See RI MS GB 2: 78.
4
Richard Hayton Davis (d.1911, age 78, GRO). Chemist who married into the Barnard family and lived mostly in Harrogate. Davis’s admission card for Faraday’s Friday Evening Discourse is in RI MS Conybeare Album, f.1.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1853c): “MM. Boussingault, Frémy, Becquerel, &c. on Oxygen”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 337-9.

Please cite as “Faraday2683,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2683