Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   2 December 1856

51A Kings Road | Brighton | 2 Decr. 1856

My dear friend

I received your letter a while ago & dull as the news which it contains is thank you very much for it. We had heard from many quarters of the sore affliction which had overtaken Mr. Sandeman1 & our brother2 & sister3 & I may say a great multitude of friends - from Newcastle & all parts we hear of the grief - the event was to us very sudden for we had not heard of Mrs. Sandeman[’s] illness4. What a heavy visit to Edinburgh this will be to our dear friend how all things concur to make it sad. I am glad he has taken his son5 with him - and we may be fully persuaded he will rest his griefs in the father of mercies who doth not willingly afflict. How rich is that source of comfort in the times of such trouble.

We are much as usual - the weather very frosty - I hope to see you next Saturday6. Remember me to Mr Anderson & thank him from me.

Ever My dear friend | Yours Affectionately | M. Faraday

Mr Vincent

1
Robert Sandeman (d.1886, age 60, SRO). Architect.
2
Stephen Leighton (d.1881, age 83, GRO). Printer and an Elder of the London Sandemanian Church.
3
Helen Leighton, née Blair (1796-1870, Sandeman (1950), GRO). Wife of Stephen Leighton.
4
Helen Sandeman, née Leighton (d.1856, age 25, SRO), Daughter of Stephen and Helen Leighton. She married Robert Sandeman in 1852 and died on 28 November 1856. Sandeman (1950), 112.
5
Unidentified.
6
That is 6 December 1856.

Bibliography

SANDEMAN, John Glas (1950):

The Sandeman genealogy brought up to date by Gerard Lionel Sandeman,

Edinburgh.

Please cite as “Faraday3208,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3208