James Forrest to Faraday   30 January 18571

30 January 1857

Dear Sir,

May I trouble you to revise and return to me at your convenience the accompanying shorthand entry notes, of the remarks which fell from you last Tuesday evening2.

Yours faithfully | James Forrest | Assistant Secretary

Professor Faraday FRS | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street.

1
James Forrest (1825-1917, Min.Proc.Inst.Civ.Eng.,1917, 203: 417-19). Assistant Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1856 to 1859.
2
That is 27 January 1857 when Faraday took part in an extended discussion of submarine telegraph cables at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Min.Proc.Inst.Civ.Eng.,1857, 16: 220-2.

Please cite as “Faraday3227,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3227