Charles Beaumont Phipps to Faraday   19 April 1858

Buckingham Palace | April 19. 1858

My dear Professor Faraday

By the death of Lady Wheatley1 there has become vacant a small house belonging to The Queen, upon Hampton Court Green - (not in the Palace) and Her Majesty thinks that it might be agreeable to you, and advantageous to Your health to have a Suburban retreat, to which you could retire after the labour of your lectures, and quietly pursue your Scientific researches.

The Queen has therefore commanded me to say, that, not only appreciating the Services which, in your lectures, you have rendered to the Prince of Wales2 - but the far more important benefit you have conferred upon the World of Science - it would give Her Majesty much pleasure to place this house at your disposal as a residence for the rest of your life - if it would be agreeable to you to live there.

It would be probably desirable that you should see the house before you return any Answer[.]

Sincerely Yours | C.B. Phipps


Endorsed by Faraday: Offer of the house by Coll. Phipps from the Queen

Address: Professor Faraday | Royal Institution

Louisa Wheatley, née Hawkins (d.1858, age 77, Gent.Mag.,1858, 4: 568). Widow of Henry Wheatley (1777-1852, B3), army officer.

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