Jane Marcet to Faraday   24 May 18551

Dear Mr Faraday

I have constantly regretted that my years & infirmities have rendered me incapable of attending your lectures, but I cannot resist the desire I feel to hear your lecture tomorrow, if you will kindly admit me, & as Mr & Mrs Romilly2 are gone into Wales & cannot attend I hope I should not be adding to the crowd by going in their stead. Pray do not trouble yourself to answer this note, & I will conclude if I hear nothing to the contrary, that you have kindly given orders for my admission[.]

Dear Sir | Very truly yours | Jane Marcet

14 Stratton Street | May 24

1
Dated on the basis that 1855 was the only year in which Faraday delivered a Friday Evening Discourse on 25 May. The Discourse was Faraday (1855c).
2
The chairman of the Audit Board from 1854 to 1865, Edward Romilly (1804–1870, B3) and his wife Sophia (d.1877, age 67, GRO), Marcet’s daughter.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1855c): “Further Observations on associated cases, in Electric Induction, of Current and Static Effects”, Phil. Mag., 9: 161-5.

Please cite as “Faraday2984a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2984a