Faraday to Sarah Faraday   13 August 1846

Royal Institution: Thursday, August 13, 1846.

Dear Heart,- My brother, exhausted by the results of the terrible accident which happened to him on Tuesday night, died this morning about seven o'clock¹. He had spent the evening of Tuesday at Mr. B.'s. After supper, he brought home my sister² in the cart, and then proceeded to take the horse and cart to the stables³. It is supposed the horse must have been frightened, or run against a post, but the cart was over turned, my poor brother cast out, and so injured on the head as not to recover his consciousness again. He was taken to University Hospital, where I saw his corpse this morning, and though sadly bruised, it was just my dear brother.

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Come home, dear. Come and join in the sympathy and comfort needed by many. Let the establishment at Tunbridge Wells go on, and give my love to father⁴ and mother⁵, and Margery, who will keep it up for a while for us.

My sister and her children have not forgotten the hope in which they were joined together with my dear Robert, and I see its beautiful and consoling influence in the midst of all these troubles. I and you, though joined in the same trouble, have part in the same hope.

Come home, dearest. Your affectionate husband, | M. Faraday