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Faraday to Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts   29 November 18621

Royal Institution | 29 Novr. 1862

My dear Miss Coutts

We have received your kind packet and kinder note & we thank you very heartily for the wholesome and excellent things which the former contained[.] Ah what an admirable position yours is. Kindness makes me think of those that need it. and when I think of poor Lancashire2 I rejoice that there is you and many other large hearted such as you who manifest what the feelings between the brethren of one country should be and so give a practical contrast to those which working elsewhere form the largest part of our trouble3[.]

Our kindest remembrances to Mrs. Brown4.

Ever Gratefully Yours | M. Faraday


Address: Miss Burdett Coutts | Ehrenberg Hall | Torquay

1
This letter is black-edged due to the death of Margaret Barnard, see letter 4236.
2
A reference to the distressed cotton workers of Lancashire put out of work by the effects of the American Civil War. See Kiesling (1997).
4
Hannah Brown, née Meredith (d.1878, age 70, GRO). Companion of Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts.

Bibliography

KIESLING, L. Lynne (1997): “The Long Road to Recovery: Postcrisis Coordination of Private Charity and Public Relief in Victorian Lancashire”, Soc. Sci. Hist., 21: 219-43.

Please cite as “Faraday4261,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4261