Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   26 June 1860

Royal Institution | 26 June 1860.

Dear Miss Coutts

I venture to submit the enclosed card as that of a case I know well & feel deeply for1[.]

Ever Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

1
This was for a proxy for the Infant Orphan Asylum in Wanstead, which was similar to the London Orphan Asylum (see note 2, letter 3516) but which took children under the age of seven. On this Asylum see Grist (1974), 1-42. The card enclosed with this letter showed that Faraday wanted the proxy for Minnie Leighton. Faraday is not listed as a subscriber in the records of the Asylum in RLSA, but there was no prohibition on non subscribers seeking to place an orphan in the Asylum. Coutts had been a subscriber since 1838. See the 1861 Report of the Infant Orphan AsylumRLSA 90/21/10/18, p.82.

Bibliography

GRIST, Donald Honey (1974): A Victorian Charity. The Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead, London.

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