Farrance’s Hotel <1>
Friday June 7th
My dear Henry
When are you coming to see us? I am going at 5 o’clock to the House of Lords, as a debate is anticipated on the Budget. If it is not long we shall be home early. Could you not come in the evening, & see Lord Mt E. <2> even if I am not returned – tho’ I think I shall be. About ½ past 9 or ten.
By-the-bye I had nearly forgotten to tell you that Dr Bence Jones <3> said there was a most interesting lecture this evening at the Rl Institution, <4> on the new discoveries in light &c. I forget the name of the Lecturer (not Fariday <5> [sic]) but he said it would be the lecture of the year. Dr Jones is, I think, Secretary this year. So you had better go there tonight – & come & lunch here at two o’clock tomorrow, Will you? or come tomorrow evg.
Yr affte
Caroline
Notes:
1. Farrance’s Hotel, Belgrave Street, London.
2. Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (1797–1861), WHFT’s brother-in-law.
3. Henry Bence Jones (1814–1873), physician and chemist; he was secretary to the Royal Institution from 1860.
4. Royal Institution, London.
5. Prof Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist.