Faraday to Margaret Faraday1   23 June 1862

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 23 June 1862

My dear Margaret

I wish to put myself under an obligation to you. Can you let me? I shall be at Greenwich on Wednesday2 & shall return from thence about 5 or 6 oclk - after which I have to dress & go to the Trinity House to dinner at about 7 oclk3 - Can you lend me a bedroom or dressing room where I may make the needful change? - If you write me Yes - I will tomorrow send in (by conveyance company) a little portmanteau with my things. Waiting your kind answer. I am

Very Affectionately Yours | M. Faraday

1
Recipient identified on the basis of the provenance of this letter; see also letter 4631u which may also refer to her.
2
That is 25 June 1862.
3
The report of the dinner, held at Trinity House, in The Times, 26 June 1862, p.11, col.b, noted Faraday’s presence.

Please cite as “Faraday4195,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4195