Alexander Stewart Herschel to Faraday   18 June 1864

Collingwood | Hawkhurst | 1864 June 18th

Dr. Faraday

Dear Sir

Accept my best thanks for your kindness in engaging Mr. Anderson’s attention to the engraving of the luminous meteor which we missed¹. I am equally persuaded with Mr. Anderson that the plate in question was dispatched to Willis’ Rooms on Saturday afternoon with others in the same parcel and am still in hopes that Mr. Brayley will discover it among the drawings brought away from there.

Pray accept the Slide of “Meteorite of Staunern” which I forward to you by rail (after showing the interesting picture to my father). I also enclose a label for the Slide of a fire ball, and would be glad if you will add these two to the Series of four slides and to the Model of a shooting star which you kindly presented to the Managers in illustration of my lectures²[.]

Sir John Herschel and Lady Herschel³ are not so well as the fair weather led me to hope. I hope rest will continue to do more for them.

I remain, dear Sir | yours very truly | Alexr. S. Herschel

Note by Faraday (RI MS F1 L/4/6): Presented by Alexr. Herschell Esqr. June 1864.

Four Photographic slides being the Radiant points of four different showers of stars occurring in the years 1863. 4.

A delineation (photographic) of the appearance of a meteor[.]

A slide of the Meteroite of Staunern