Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   1 January 1857

1 January 1857. | R Institution | London W.

My dear Miss Coutts

You are very kind to think of our pleasure & send us entrance to your box for to-morrow night1. We thank you very sincerely, and I mean to enjoy it for I still have a sympathy with children and all their thoughts & pleasure. Permit me to wish you very sincerely a Happy year and also to Mrs. Brown - With some of us our greatest happiness will be content mingled with patience but there is much happiness in that & the expected end[.]

Every Your Obliged Servant | M. Faraday


Address: Miss Coutts

1
Coutts’s box was at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where Faraday later recollected that he had seen a pantomime, letter 3595. This would have been “See Saw, Margery Daw”, see Times,2 January 1857, p.6, col. b.

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