Robert Lucas Chance1 to Faraday   14 January 1865

Summerfield House nr Birmingham | 14 Jany 1865

M. Faraday Esqre

My dear Sir,

On the receipt of your letter I wrote to our mutual friend - Joseph Chater2 thinking you might be more depressed than it was necessary and I was very much pleased to hear that Mr Chater had called at your residence and found that you were better and your dear wife very well.

You and I are very much in the same predicament in regard to our respective wives, and my constant prayer is that my wife3 may be preserved to be my survivor and I have no doubt that yours is the same.

I have not yet heard from Sir David Brewster4 but as he was in London in June last and was then consenting to be a Director in the photo-sulphate company, I trust I shall therefore hear he will accept my invitation.

With our kind united | regards to you & Mrs Faraday, I remain | My dear friend yours very sincerely | R.L. Chance


Address: Mr. M. Faraday Esq | Hampton Court | Midx5

1
Robert Lucas Chance (1782–1865, B4). Birmingham glass manufacturer.
2
Joseph Chater (1797–1875, Chater (1977), 18). London glass merchant.
3
Louisa Chance (d.1873, age 86, GRO). Wife of R.L. Chance.
4
Written above ‘Humphry Davy’ which was crossed through.
5
Redirected to ‘Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | London’.

Bibliography

CHATER, Michael (1977): Family Business: A History of Grosvenor Chater 1690-1977, St Albans.

Please cite as “Faraday4519,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4519