John Hall Gladstone to Faraday   21 February 1862

28 Pembridge Gardens | 21 Feby. 1862

My dear Prof. Faraday

My good friend Mr. Perrow1 has asked me for an introduction to you. His business is the proposed monument to Sir Humphrey [sic] Davy, of which he is to be the architect:- but I must leave him to tell his own story2.

I remain | Ever yours faithfully | J.H. Gladstone

1
James Perrow (d.1863, age 29, Stevenson (1884), 64). Cornish architect.
2
According to Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 445, ‘He [Faraday] subscribed most liberally to the fund for raising a monument to Sir H. Davy at Penzance’. See MacLeod (2007), 309-12 for this proposal to erect a statue of Davy. Although the design was displayed at the Royal Academy (Graves (1905-6), 7: 7), the funding required was not obtained and a more modest statue was unveiled in Penzance in 1872.

Bibliography

BENCE JONES, Henry (1870a): The Life and Letters of Faraday, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London.

GRAVES, Algernon (1905-6): The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, 8 volumes, London.

Please cite as “Faraday4139,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4139