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Benjamin Collins Brodie to Faraday   4 November 18531

13 Albert Road | Regent’s Park | Nov. 4

My dear Sir,

We are anxious at the Chemical Society to throw a little more life and interest into our meetings. The enclosed Paper explains the plan by which it is hoped to effect this and also the nature of the request which I have to make to you, which is whether you will kindly consent to give one of the discourses mentioned in it2. I will with your permission, take an early opportunity of calling upon you to explain a little more fully what we desire.

I am, | very truly yours | B.C. Brodie

Professor Faraday

1
Dated on the basis of the reference to discourses at the Chemical Society.
2
The idea of discourses at the Chemical Society was approved at the June 1853 meeting of its Council and reported at the 1854 Annual General Meeting. See J.Chem.Soc.,1854, 7: 158-9. Faraday did not deliver such a discourse.

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