Sarah Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   9 July 18521

Friday July 9th | High Street | Lowestoft

My very dear Friend

Tho’ you are so kind as to say we need not answer your letter I think I may write a few lines to thank you in both our names, for it was most acceptable & perhaps you will be so kind as to say to our Mary Ann2 that we do not intend being at home before Wednesday or Thursday next3[.] I promised to let her know if we did not mean to be at home this week.

We are tempted by the beautiful weather & fine sea breezes to stay a little longer, as we find we can spend the Sabbath with our Brethren at Old Buckenham taking a return ticket tomorrow but though I tell you this, we do not wish the time of our return to be known to people in general - for sometimes it has been quite over powering to Mr Faraday to have so many callers immediately on his arriving[.]

Mr Faraday joins me in kind love to Mrs. Vincent4 & yourself & I remain my dear Friend

Yours very affectionately | S. Faraday

Affectionate remembrance to enquiring friends, particularly to Mr Whit[e]law who we rejoice to hear is so much recovered[.]

1
Dated on the basis that the Faradays were visiting Lowestoft at this time and on the reference to Whitelaw’s illness. See letters 2551 and 2548 respectively.
2
Mary Ann Champ (age 22 in 1851 Census returns PRO HO107 / 1476, f.64). Maid at the Royal Institution.
3
That is 14 or 15 July 1852.
4
Janet Young Vincent, née Nicoll (1811-1863, GRO).

Please cite as “Faraday2549,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2549