Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   28 June 1852¹

Old Buckenham | Monday Morning | June 28th

My dear friend

Your note was indeed very acceptable & I hope that the cheering account you gave of our friend is now backed up by continual improvement on his part so that our next letters may leave us to rejoice without anxiety as regards this attack[.] When I tell the friends that you say Mr Whitelaw is better they naturally say & how is himself, but there is no word of that in your note so we trust that no news is good news[.] Our friends here are much as usual[.] All were at meeting yesterday except Mrs. Thos. Loveday² Junr. who draws near to her confinement & Mrs. Bigsby³ whom as yet we have not been able to see or even hear of, but to day or tomorrow will I trust do something in that way[.]

The weather here is a great mixture of fine sunshine & rain. Yesterday was a beautiful day until tea time when a Thunder storm came on with floods of rain & every part of the surface of the earth streamed with water[.] It tied up many friends but about 10 o’clk it cleared up. The Loveday family have a clamp of bricks in hand & the rain of Saturday Friday & yesterday was very inopportune for them. I shall see presently what harm it has done.

With respect to our movements I cannot tell you certainly what we shall do. We intend to go to Lowestoff some day about the middle of the week and it is just possible we may be home on Saturday next⁴ so that I stand some chance of being at the Monday meetings of Managers & Members⁵[.] But if I find Lowestoff takes off the languor (which this place does not remove) then we may be tempted to stop a few days longer there. I have written Anderson a note telling him to stop letters until he hears further. Will you have the kindness to give it to him[.]

Friends here are earnestly enquiring after you & the London friends. They are looking forward with expectation to your fathers⁶ visit & we encourage their hopes. I hope we do not do wrong. They send their love to you & the brethren generally. I put in that of my wife (who is just gone shopping) and self to you & yours.

I am My dear friend | Yours affectionately | M. Faraday

Mr. B. Vincent.