Sarah Faraday to William Buchanan   3 November 1850¹

Thanks many thanks my very dear friend for your letter & its enclosure. My mind is greatly relieved by it & the voice of Church to day & I have hopes that my dear husband will be allowed to see that we have been reasoning beyond what the Scriptures allow, he has been encouraged by your kind expressions to pour out his heart to you but after he had done so he thought he should destroy it, however I venture to enclose it² - he has not been heard in the Church yet some & I among them requested patience[.]

We are to meet again on Wednesday evening³[.]

My fear now is that his mind is quite over taxed & he seems almost as if reason would fail, this subject has pressed with such intense weight upon a brain already worn with much study & he again & again says “I may not be a hypocrite” he seems to me as if he could hardly take in any arguments but I hope he will get sleep & his mind be restored[.]

I am well my dear friend & brother | ever most affectionately yours | S. Faraday

Royal Institution | Novr 3rd