Faraday to Cecilia Anne Barlow   14 August 1861

The Green | Hampton Court | 14 August 1861

My dear Mrs. Barlow

There is surely sufficient reason for me at this time to count you and Mr Barlow as one for the thoughts and acts so mingle together both on your side and ours as to make that conclusion both inevitable and most fitting, so I do not answer yours as if from you only or write to you as if to you only and that is a very pleasant condition for us to come to[.] Only a moment ago my wife was asking me if I was about to write to you & sends all her sympathies & kind thoughts with mine[.] So does Jeannie who was extremely grateful for your love which I gave her from your letter.

I am very glad you are pleasantly placed & are satisfied with your position & I earnestly hope that it may produce a good effect on my friend. My feelings in watching you two under the influence of illness or infirmity are greatly modified by observing (as always) the manner in which you bear that which is not & never can be quite agreeable to us as human creatures. I admire your patience, content, & equanimity the absence of that querulousness and repining which so often accompanies trials of a bodily kind. You are to me an example in these matters as in many others[.]

We are having very fine weather and all things agreeable. All is quiet & well in Albemarle Street - and so if my dear wife keeps as well as she is I think we shall next week start off to Newcastle that the sisters may have a meeting. We have many dear friends there & I expect to be gone about a fortnight. I do not think I shall be at the British Association¹. I am very soon wearied by such occupation & matter as makes the staple of such a meeting - valuable & important as it is to those who have health strength & desire to enjoy it.

Remember I am writing to both | Ever My dear friends | Yours affectionately | M. Faraday

Mrs. Barlow.