Faraday to Jeannette Caroline Pickersgill1   12 April 1861

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | April 12, 1861

Dear Madam

I have done as you desired. In respect of Dr Lyon Playfair2 I do not know that he is in town but I am so little in Society that he might very well be here & I not know it. I condole with you on your bereavement3

& am | Most faithfully Yours | M. Faraday

Mrs. Pickersgill

1
Jeannette Caroline Pickersgill, née Grover (c.1814–1885, ODNB). Painter.
2
Lyon Playfair (1818–1898, ODNB). Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University, 1858–1869.
3
The death on 7 January 1861 of her husband the painter Henry Hall Pickersgill (1812–1861, ODNB).

Please cite as “Faraday3978,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3978