BIB_ID
273187
Accession number
MA 7178
Creator
Faraday, Sarah, 1800-1879.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1843 December 6.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2007.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.311.3 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
Endorsed: " 1843 / Mrs. Faraday / a beautiful note." Likely in the hand of Lady Davy.
Recipient is Lady Davy (Jane Apreece), wife of Sir Humphry Davy.
Single sheet folded to make four pages.
Sir Humphry Davy appointed Faraday to be his amanuensis in 1812, and his laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution in 1813. Despite this, relations between the two men were often difficult and strained, particularly in 1813-1814, when Faraday accompanied Davy on a tour of the Continent and Lady Davy (a rich heiress and socialite) treated Faraday (the son of a blacksmith) as a servant.
Endorsed: " 1843 / Mrs. Faraday / a beautiful note." Likely in the hand of Lady Davy.
Recipient is Lady Davy (Jane Apreece), wife of Sir Humphry Davy.
Single sheet folded to make four pages.
Sir Humphry Davy appointed Faraday to be his amanuensis in 1812, and his laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution in 1813. Despite this, relations between the two men were often difficult and strained, particularly in 1813-1814, when Faraday accompanied Davy on a tour of the Continent and Lady Davy (a rich heiress and socialite) treated Faraday (the son of a blacksmith) as a servant.
Summary
Thanking Lady Davy for "the very unexpected mark of her kindness" and alluding to "the ties by feeling & gratitude which bind her husband to the memory of Sir Humphry."
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