Faraday to Andrew Reid   24 August 18601

Royal Institution | 24 Aug 1860

My dear Andrew

I have yours & the contents - many thanks for your kind regularity[.]

I hope you will have better weather at the seaside than we have here - Rain at least every other day all day long. Very sad for the country.

We are pretty well - considering that yesterday was a fatiguing hard working marrying day2[.] However the Young folks at Kensington seemed very happy & set off I believe for Wales where they will find the water falls in high condition[.]

The News of Miss Hornblower is very cheering[.] She is not yet declared out of danger but we hope she is. Nor is she allowed to sit up yet - nor to see any one but her nieces and only one of them every other day[.]

Please tell Mr. Vincent this[.] Love to all our friends[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

No address to your letter & I cannot remember it.

1
Andrew Reid (1823-1896, Reid, C.L. (1914)). A nephew of Sarah Faraday and a printer in Newcastle.
2
That is the marriage, on 23 August 1860 (GRO), of Mary Anne Barnard (d.1895, age 57, GRO, daughter of Sarah Faraday’s brother William Barnard) and Henry Irwin Cummins (d.1885, age 61, AC), Rector of St Alban’s, Wood Street, 1854-1885.

Please cite as “Faraday3834,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3834