Faraday to Charles Babbage   9 June 18601

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 9 June 1860

My dear Babbage

I send back the Jacquarde safely & am deeply obliged to you for the loan of it & grateful to you for thinking of us and doing what I never should have ventured to ask2[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

1
Charles Babbage (1791-1871, ODNB). Mainly worked on inventing mechanical calculating machines.
2
He discussed this in Faraday (1860c), Friday Evening Discourse of 8 June 1860.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1860c): “On the Electric Silk-Loom”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 3: 271-4.

Please cite as “Faraday3789,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3789