Friedrich Max Müller to Faraday   3 April 18611

Ray Lodge | Maidenhead. | April 3

My dear Sir,

I am extremely sorry that you should have all this trouble about the Diagrams. I certainly think that the table of the Aryan languages would be a help to my audience; but if it must be, I can do without it, and write the names on the Board. The only drawback is that it takes so much time. There is one other list that I should have liked for my 5th. Lecture, and which could be copied from page 12, of a book which I send you by Book post. The verb might be written out exactly as it stands, from line 3 to line 9, and again from line 32 to line 41.

If there is time, perhaps it would be best if I were to copy the first list again so as to avoid any mistake in the Diagram. If you sent me the MS. to morrow, it might be in the writers hands again on Friday2.

Yours sincerely | Max Müller

Professor Faraday | &c &c &c

1
Dated on the basis of the reference to Müller’s Royal Institution lectures.
2
That is 5 April 1861. This was for Müller’s course of nine lectures on ‘The Science of Language’ which commenced on 13 April 1861. RI MS GB 2: 125.

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