William Whewell to Faraday   12 March 1854

Trin. Lodge, Cambridge, | Mar. 12, 1854

My dear Dr. Faraday

I do not know anything which could weigh so much with me, in making me wish to give a lecture at the R.I.¹, as your thinking it would be likely to be interesting and informative. I think I have a few thoughts “On the influence of the History of Science upon Intellectual Education”² which perhaps may not have occurred exactly in the same form to other persons, and which may serve to answer the speculations which may be delivered, on the influence of special branches of Science. If you think this likely to answer the purpose of the R.I. I should suppose such a lecture would come best at the beginning of the series; and in that case. I would prepare myself for such a lecture to be delivered, I suppose, soon after Easter. You will let me know whether this proposal appears to you worth following out - and believe me

Always truly yours | W. Whewell