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To ?   17 February [1875–8]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Feb 17th

Dear Sir

Faraday left a widow who is alive, or who was so quite lately.—2 He left no children.— If you will address a letter as on the next page it will be sure to reach Mrs. Faraday—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Mrs Faraday

care of Prof. Tyndall F.R.S.3

Royal Institution

Albemarle St

London.

Footnotes

1
The year range is established by the printed stationery, which is of a type used by CD from November 1874, and by the date of the death of Sarah Faraday (see n. 2, below).
2
Michael Faraday died in 1867. His wife, Sarah Faraday, died on 6 January 1879 (England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 May 2014)).
3
Faraday had been Fullerian Professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain; John Tyndall was professor of natural philosophy there (ODNB).

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Summary

Tells correspondent how to locate Michael Faraday’s widow [Sarah Barnard].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9859
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9859,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9859.xml

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