Faraday to James Copcutt1   21 September 1861

The Green | Hampton Court | 21 Septr. 1861.

Sir

Thanks for your letter2. At the close of it you ask me privately & confidingly for the encouragement my opinion might give you if this power gas light is fit for lighthouses”. I am unable to assent to your request; as my position at the Trinity house requires that I should be able to take up any subject, applications, or documents, they may bring before me in a perfectly unbiased condition of mind[.]

I am Sir | Yours Very Truly | M. Faraday

Js. Copcutt Esqr

1
James Copcutt (d.1900, age 77, GRO). Described as author and professor of chemistry living in Aylesbury in the 1861 census. TNA RG9/865, f.92, p.48.

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