Harriet Jane Moore to Faraday   4 August 1851¹

The Spring Aug 4th

Many thanks my dear Mr. Faraday for your kind note. I am much vexed that you should have suffered so distressing a malady, and that Mrs. Faraday should have felt the anxiety your illness must have caused her: I trust that you will continue to improve, and will be careful not to catch cold, relapses are generally so much more formidable than the first attack. I am so pleased that I could send any thing you liked; as soon as I hear of your return Mrs. Faraday shall have a nosegay with long stalks, at least as long as I can contrive to procure them, but our garden is not too well stocked with flowers. The humble river Brent is now full of the most elegant plants; weeds, fashionable gardeners would call them, but really very beautiful, rather too much so for a lady who came down to spend the evening with us last week, in attempting to reach some white water lilies fell into the water, & was most completely drenched. I hope you have had some fine sunsets in the north; I always wish you were here when there is one more beautiful than usual. The weather is now favourable for the harvest, & wheat & oats are being cut in this neighbourhood. I do not think you can say as much for Northumberland. My people join in kindest remembrances to yourself & Mrs. Faraday,

& believe me Most truly Yours | Harriet Moore