7th Earl of Shaftesbury to Faraday   29 December 18541

St. Giles House | Dec: 29, 1854

My dear Mr Faraday

I am much gratified by your kindness in sending me an admission to your Xmas lectures2.

I sincerely wish that my Children were in town to hear them; but I shall hope to come & hear some of them myself.

Yours Truly | Shaftesbury

M. Faraday Esq

1
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885, DNB). Social reformer.
2
See letter 2928. Faraday gave six Christmas lectures on the chemistry of combustion. See RI MS GB 2: 85.

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