Faraday to Harriet Jane Moore   Undated

If you like I will set you down <<on>> my list for the next Proxy bu<<t>> I am not so large a subscriber as your friend proposes having but one proxy each election1. The description of the case does not contain the age of the party. We are getting on pretty well here. One day Sun & summer; another much lightning


As to my wife she is on the whole pretty well & I have no doubt if I were to ask her would give me many messages to you but I will leave them & all her remembrances to your imagination.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Miss Moore

1
Presumbly to provide a place for an orphan in the London Orphan Asylum in Clapton, founded in 1813, of which Faraday became a subscriber in 1831. See the 1832 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/1/6, p.88. Each subscriber had one or more votes (depending on the size of their subscription) for suitable candidates for a place in the orphanage. Votes could be transferred by proxy between subscribers. For accounts of the London Orphan Asylum see Alvey (1990) and Bache (1839), 58-65. There is no direct evidence that Moore was a subscriber.

Bibliography

ALVEY, Norman (1990): Education by Election: Reed's School, Clapton and Watford, St Albans.

BACHE, Alexander Dallas (1839): Report on Education in Europe, to the Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans, Philadelphia.

Please cite as “Faraday4703u,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4703u