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Royal
Institution (1)
15.
Aug.
1836 My
dear Sir My absence from town left me in
ignorance of your kind
letter (2)
until now for which I have to express my great regret at the same time
that I thank you sincerely for your kindness But I am cut off from
Bristol (3) &
all pleasure connected with it by illness
in the knee joint which
renders me very weak & lame and will I fear disable me for many
months though under the hands of Sir Benj Brodie. (4)
Even at home it almost
entirely prevents my working Again
thanking you for your kindness I
remain My dear Sir Your Obliged
M Faraday H.
F. Talbot Esqr
&c &c &c
H. F. Talbot Esqr
&c &c &c
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham Free
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1) Royal Institution, London.
2) Letter not located.
3) WHFT invited a number of savants to stay at Lacock Abbey before the
1836 meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science. Sir
David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish scientist &
journalist,
Professor Charles Babbage (1792–1871), mathematician
& inventor,
Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), scientist, Dr Peter Mark
Roget
(1779–1869), scientific writer, Reverend William Whewell
(1794–1866),
Welsh, Professor & natural philosopher and Sir William Snow
Harris
(1791–1867), scientist assembled at Lacock Abbey the 16th and
17th of
August, leaving at various times for the meeting, which began 22 August.
4) Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783–1862) surgeon.
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