Faraday to Sarah Faraday   25 July 1822

Marino, near Swansea: July 25, 1822

I have just stolen upstairs into my room to write to you. I intended to have written this morning, so that the letter should go by to-night’s mail, but business at the furnaces detained me till half-past five o’clock; then, as dinner was to take place at 6 o’clock, and there were great persons to be at it, I was obliged to haste in my dressing, so as not to detain them. After dinner the tedious fashion of remaining at table could not be broken by me alone; so at half-past nine, and not before, we went into the drawing-room to tea: here I was detained half-an-hour, and then stole away to converse a little with you. ...

I forget myself; I was thinking you were in London. When my thoughts are on you, other things are out of my mind; but I know you will be rather pleased than otherwise with a fault which is the result of the earnest, anxious affection of your husband.

M. Faraday