Faraday to Juliet Pollock   14 April 1859

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | Albemarle St W. | 14 April 1859.

My dear Mrs. Pollock

I am sorry I cannot promise you the proxy1[.] I am engaged three deep unless some of the three candidates are elected in the mean time. If they go off though that is not likely - you shall have it[.]

We are all pretty well & thank you heartily. Jane is at Hampton Court by Doctors orders & will remain there I believe. The reports about the author2 of Adam Bede3 are I find very general & very uncertain. How clever the book is. That Mrs. Poyser I hope she will live again & again and the Schoolmaster. What may we not expect from such an author?

Ever | My dear Mrs. Pollock | Most truly Yours | M. Faraday

1
A reference to the London Orphan Asylum, see note 2, letter 3516. Juliet Pollock is not listed as a subscriber in the records of the Asylum in SuRO, but there was no prohibition on non subscribers seeking to place an orphan in the Asylum.
2
For a discussion about the attempts at this time to identify George Eliot see Haight (1968), 284-7.
3
Eliot (1859).

Bibliography

ELIOT, George (1859) Adam Bede, 3 volumes, Edinburgh.

HAIGHT, Gordon S. (1968): George Eliot: A Biography, Oxford.

Please cite as “Faraday3583,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3583