Faraday to Edward Kater1   28 February 1861

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 28 Feby 1861

My dear Sir

I have been very much interested by looking over the Solander you sent to me containing such very pleasant remembrances of Dr Wollaston2[.] I had some of his wires but nothing so fine as some that are here3. If you think of presenting the box with its contents to me I shall take very great care of it using it to illustrate Dr Wollastons character whenever the occasion rises and the best history I can attach to it will be your letter[.] Do not let me however mistake your intention for I know that if I return it to you you would always give me access to it[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Edwd Kater Esq | &c &c &c

1
Edward Kater (1816–1866, B2). Gentleman and landowner; member of the Royal Institution. Macmillan (1966), 22.
2
William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828, ODNB). Man of science. Worked on physiology, chemistry and physics. Secretary of the Royal Society, 1804–16, President 1820.
3
These were samples of very fine platinum wires made by Wollaston. See Michael Faraday, ‘On Platinum’, Friday Evening Discourse of 22 February 1861, Chem.News, 2 March 1861, 3: 136-41, p.140 and Coatsworth et al. (1981), 101.

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