Faraday to Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth   29 March 18581

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | Albemarle St. W. | 29 March 1858

My dear Master Shuttleworth

I am very glad that you escaped from serious injury on Saturday2, and also thankful to yourself for letting me know assuredly of your escape. How soon in life we begin to learn that there are many deliverances we have to be thankful for which no amount of tender care in those around us could have provided; although they may make that care, & the love which causes it, abundantly manifest[.]

I am My dear Master Shuttleworth | Very truly Yours | M. Faraday

1
Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (1844-1939, WWW3). Later a politician.
2
That is 27 March 1858. Shuttleworth was injured by the explosion of glass apparatus being used in a lecture at the Royal Institution by the Professor of Practical Chemistry at King’s College, London between 1856 and 1870, Charles Loudon Bloxam (1831-1887, ODNB). Faraday administered first aid to Shuttleworth in the Ante-room. See Shuttleworth to Times, Times,31 August 1931, p.6, col. f.

Please cite as “Faraday3407,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3407