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
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 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9859.xml