Isaac Lowthian Bell1 to Faraday   26 October 1863

Iron Offices. | Newcastle upon Tyne. | 26 Oct 1863

My dear Dr. Faraday

In reply to your letter of 24th I wondered with you as to what Davy would have said had he seen, as I did, not nine bars but eight Cwt (nearly half a ton) of Sodium lying on the ground.

Would you kindly convey my Compliments & those of my Brothers2 to your Managers at Albemarle Street and inform them that we place this result of Davy’s discovery at their disposal without any charge.

To prevent any delicacy preventing a second application we will invoice any further order they may require. I say this because you can obtain the metal I think more easily from us than elsewhere3[.]

Yours faithfully | I. Lowthian Bell

Royal Institution | Albemarle Street London

1
Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816–1904, ODNB). Iron master and industrial chemist in the North East and Mayor of Newcastle, 1862–1863.
2
The practical geologist John Bell (1818–1888, ODNB under I.L Bell) and the Newcastle iron master and industrial chemist Thomas Bell (1817–1894, ODNB under I.L. Bell).
3
This letter was copied into RI MM, 2 November 1863, 12: 28 which thanked Bell for the gift of seven pounds of sodium.

Please cite as “Faraday4387,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4387