Henry Richard Williams1 to Faraday   27 March 1862

27th March [186]2

I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to inform you that Her Majesty’s Paymaster General has been requested to pay to your order the sum of One hundred pounds (£100=) less Income Tax as remuneration for your service in connexion with Light Houses Abroad.

Enclosed is an Order for the amount which upon being completed by you may be presented for payment through any Banker.

I am Sir, Your obedient Servant. | H.R. Williams

To | Professor Faraday F.R.S. | &c &c &c | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | W.

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Henry Richard Williams (d.1884, age 85, The Times, 1 December 1884, p.1, col.a). Accountant at Board of Trade, 1853–1867, Royal Kalendar.

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