Faraday to Richard Hayton Davis   30 May 1864

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 30 May 1864

My dear friend

As a sort of return in kind for your Carbon photograph1 I send you one which as you will see in the back is taken from a Magnesium light Negative at our Friday Evening meeting of the 6th of this month2.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

R.H. Davis Esqr | &c &c &c

2
Roscoe (1864), Friday Evening Discourse of 6 May 1864, p.290 mentioned that a portrait was taken, but did not say of whom. The photograph is reproduced in Roscoe (1906), opposite p.132.

Bibliography

ROSCOE, Henry Enfield (1864): “On the Metal Indium and Recent Discoveries on Spectrum Analysis”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 4: 284-90.

ROSCOE, Henry Enfield (1906): The Life & Experiences of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, London.

Please cite as “Faraday4461,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4461