Peter Henry Berthon to Faraday   26 July 1860

Trinity House | 26 July 1860

My dear Sir,

The Royal Commission have at last offered to enlighten us on the subject of the alleged defects in the lighting Apparatus1, and an Arrangement has been made for a Committee of the Brethren to meet them at their Office 7 Milbank Street Westminster at 3 O’clock PM on Monday next2, - at which time the Deputy Master3 earnestly hopes that it will suit you to meet the Brethren there; and see as the Boys say “what you shall see”4.,

The Mountain is parturient I trust it may only bring forth a “ridiculous mess”5[.]

Yours in great [word illegible] | P.H. Berthon

M. Faraday Esq | &c &c &c

2
That is 30 July 1860.
3
Robert Gordon.
4
A reference to Cary (1852), 264.
5
A deliberate reworking of Aesop fable 26.

Bibliography

CARY, Alice (1852): Clovernook or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West, New York.

Please cite as “Faraday3809,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3809