Faraday to Miss Lyon   20 February 18571

20 Feby 1857 | Royal Institution | Albemarle St. W.

My dear Miss Lyon

I hasten to send you the tickets2 with our heartiest remembrances[.] Jeanie is not here & if she were I do not know that I should let her write: I hope you have heard or will hear the great bell3 before you come: it is a fine sight & has a glorious sound[.]

Ever Truly Your | faithful Servant | M. Faraday

1
Unidentified.
2
Presumably for Denison (1857), Friday Evening Discourse of 6 March 1857.
3
A reference to the new great bell (later called “Big Ben”) for the new Houses of Parliament which was then being tested in Palace Yard. See Weinreb and Hibbert (1983), 63-4.

Bibliography

DENISON, Edward Beckett (1857): “On the Great Bell of Westminster”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 2: 368-84.

Please cite as “Faraday3243,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3243