Faraday to Caroline Deacon   29 July 1858

Eastbourne | 29 July 1858

My dear Caroline

My wife is preparing a letter for you and so I haste to use the few minutes allowed me to send my love. You have had much trouble of illness lately I think, and though I do not remember the circumstances exactly I feel as if you had been useful in it to others - and that is to be useful to oneself - for the thoughts often work up in these matters - and though our own plans are disturbed, yet something comes out of the plans of him who is ruler of all things that is good to his people. Dear Caroline think of me sometimes - not in proportion to my thoughts of you for they are very slow;- nature and lukewarmness combining to make them so. I do not know what can be done under such conviction than first to examine ourselves and then to commit our keeping unto him who keepeth his people and maketh his reproofs acceptable in their results.

Remember me to your husband and to Constance

Ever My dear Caroline | Your Affectionate Uncle | M Faraday