John Percy to Faraday   28 December 18551

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | Friday evening.

My dear Dr Faraday-

I trust you had what you wanted yesterday. The nugget was not the same as that you saw at the museum; Mr Reeks2, and myself thought it would answer your purpose better than the other. It was modelled from a Californian specimen. If you will let Reeks know tomorrow morning which you require, one of my men shall take the things to the Institution[.]

Ever yours | John Percy

Dr Faraday.

1
Dated on the basis that Faraday lectured on gold on 27 December 1855 in his Christmas lectures on the “Common Metals”. See RI MS F4 J17, p.1.
2
Trenham Reeks (c.1823-1879, B3). Curator and Librarian of the Museum of Economic Geology and Registrar of the School of Mines, 1851-1879.

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