Faraday to James Emerson Tennent   13 June 18551

Royal Institution | 13 June 1855

My dear Sir Emerson

You are very kind and I thank you sincerely for the invitation2 but I must not accept it as I am known never to dine out in the circles of Society[.]

The fragment of mirror I will keep a few days & then return[.]

I have been puzzling my head ever since Saturday3 trying to remember whom I had promised to send the Aluminium4 to. I now send it - thanking you much for your kindness & hope you will excuse my forgetfulness

I am | Very Truly Yours | M Faraday

James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869, B3). Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1852-1867.
That is 9 June 1855.
See McConnell (1989).

Bibliography

McCONNELL, Anita (1989): “Aluminium and its Alloys for Scientific Instruments, 1855-1900”, Ann. Sci., 46: 611-20.

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