Faraday to Frederick Gye   20 July 18551

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 20 July 1855

Thanks my dear Sir for a very great treat, but if I had known before I wrote to you that it was to be the first night of Meyerbeers Opera I should not have moved you[.]

Ever Your Obliged | M. Faraday

F. Gye Esqr | &c &c &c

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Faraday heard the British premier of Meyerbeer’s “L’Etoile du Nord”. Times, 19 July 1855, p.8, col. a.

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