R Institution <1>
Mar 2 1833
Dear Sir
I never am disengaged on a Sunday – and on Monday I leave town (very suddenly) for South Wales <2> & shall not be back until the end of the week
I think you would like to talk with Mr Wheatstone <3> on the subject; he says he shall be too occupied until next Friday, when he will pursue the matter in our lecture room. But after that he will be happy to see you if you call upon him in Conduit Street <4>
Every truly Yours
M Faraday
H F Talbot Esqr&c
Notes:
1. Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London.
2. Faraday served as a witness for the defendant in the case of “David v Vivian and Vivian, 1832”.
3. Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), scientist gave a Friday Evening Discourse, “On the duration of luminous impressions on the organs of vision”, written up in The Athenaeum, 16 March 1833, pp.170–171.
4. 20 Conduit Street, London was the location of the firm of musical instrument makers, Charles & William Wheatstone. It was also Wheatstone’s residence until his marriage in 1847.