Sarah Faraday and Faraday to Harriet Jane Moore   10 May 18561

5 Albion Villas | Folk[e]stone | May 10th / 56

My dear Miss Moore

I think you will like a line or two to let you know how we are going on in our unexpected visit to Folkestone - it was not a cold but a long continuous headache which seemed enervating with giddiness which made Dr Bence Jones send us away & which I knew by experience was the only thing to do my dear husband good; the weather so far has not been propitious – but we are away from excitement & endeavouring to be idly busy[.] Mr Faraday reading a little, working cross stitch a little, & walking when the weather will allow - (I have not put my head out yet) & we are all enjoying Dr B Jones’ comfortable roomy house, it is a great thing when shut in by weather in the country, to have room to move about & pleasant companions - we have our two nieces (Miss Reid & Jane) & do not quarrel much & we hope in a few days to return all the better[.]

Do not trouble yourself for a moment about the Davenport a piece came off before, Mr Huddleston2 will set to it rights, in coming home it may have got shaken & it is of not the least consequence[.]

We are sorry to hear still such a sad account of your Brother3 for perhaps all this cold wind may have some influence[.]

With our kindest remembrances to your family circle

Believe me My dear Miss Moore | Yours very sincerely | S. Faraday


Many thanks my dear Miss Moore for your kind note[.] The ready sympathy of my friends often represses me with my own want of feeling. We are getting on better to day is better – it is bright even but my dear wife has not been out of the house since we came into it[.] It is very comfortable[.] With kindest remembrances to all with you

I am Yours Very Truly | M. Faraday

10 May 1856

1
Harriet Jane Moore (1801-1884, James (2001)). Painter and member of the Royal Institution, 1852-1881.
2
Thomas Huddlestone (d.1881, age 56, GRO). Furniture maker who undertook work for the Royal Institution.
3
John Carrick Moore (1805-1898, Proc.Roy.Soc.,1898, 63: xxix-xxxii). Secretary of the Geological Society, 1855 to 1856.

Bibliography

JAMES, Frank A.J.L. (2001): “Harriet Jane Moore, Michael Faraday, and Moore’s mid-nineteenth century watercolours of the interior of the Royal Institution”, in Hamilton, J. (2001), 111-28.

Please cite as “Faraday3142,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3142