Faraday to Maurice Holzmann1   22 December 1863

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | Decr. 22 1863.

My dear Sir

I have just risen (at Midday) from my bed to acknowledge your very pleasant & kindly letter. My words totter - my memory totters & now my legs have taken to tottering and I am altogether a very tottering & helpless thing. I rejoice to hear that the Queen looks on us with such favour as to decide that H.R. Highness Prince Arthur2 should attend some of the lectures3. You may be sure of my earnestness in the cause and you cannot think how much Her Majesty’s sanction & approval of our course of action stimulates all here to persevere in the course which has thus far gained the approbation of Her Majesty and our beloved member the late Prince Consort[.]

Ever My dear Dr. Holzmann. | Yours Most Truly | M. Faraday

Dr. M. Holzmann | &c &c &c

1
Maurice Holzmann (1835–1909, The Times, 2 April 1909, p.13, col.e). Librarian to Prince of Wales, 1863 to 1901.
2
Prince Arthur (1850–1942, ODNB). Third son of Queen Victoria.
3
This was Tyndall’s course of Christmas lectures ‘On Electricity at Rest and Electricity in Motion’, RI MS GB 3: 29 and 33.

Please cite as “Faraday4417,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4417