Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph fragment of a letter signed : place not specified, to George Bentley, undated.

BIB_ID
302428
Accession number
MA 4371.58
Creator
Mayer, S. R. Townshend (Samuel Ralph Townshend), 1841-1880.
Display Date
undated.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Lacking preliminary page(s).
Part of a large collection of letters from S. R. Townshend Mayer to George Bentley, publisher and editor of Temple Bar magazine. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary
Reporting that he has made an "immortalizing scientific discovery in connexion with electricity." Wishing that Bentley lived closer, noting "I haven't had a good gossip in an age." Inquiring after R.H. Horne and promising to write an article on Leigh Hunt.