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Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   21 August 18621

H.C. | Thursday, 21.

My dear friend

Though my letter will be exceedingly short still I am sure you would rather have it than not. It will be just three or four notes of remembrance.

Mr. Phillips2 does not leave London this week - there is little or no hopes of Mr. J.H. Baxter coming to London.

Mr. Leighton3 was away last night but will I believe be home on Saturday[.]

Mrs. Geo. Leighton4 with Mrs. Geo. Sandeman5 & three children had a very narrow escape from great danger in respect of their conveyance last night to meeting6 for the shafts broke - the horse almost unmanageable but in great mercy they were saved - Mr Leighton was not with them. Edwd Reid went home with her & there left her recovering in her husbands hands[.]

We are planning to be at Old Buckenham & hoping to have you there on Sabbath the 31st. Perhaps we shall meet next Saturday for a word or two[.]

We are very glad to hear of Mrs. Vincent - Love to you & her from all of us here. Her presence was a great pleasure to us[.]

Ever Affectionately Yours | M. Faraday

Mr Vincent

Mr. Myddleton7 from Aberdeen is in town & glad to see us all as you may think - out last night[.] MF


Watermark: 1861

1
Dated on the basis that Faraday was in Norfolk at the end of August. See letter 4218.
2
Unidentified.
3
John Leighton (1803–1868, Cantor (1991), 301). Sandemanian and artist.
4
Margaret Leighton, née Faraday (d.1905, age 83, SRO). Daughter of Robert and Margaret Faraday. Married George Cargill Leighton in 1849. Made Confession of Faith in the London Sandemanian Church, 7 November 1841. DUA Acc M/409/5/4, p.53.
5
Unidentified.
6
That is the Wednesday evening meeting of the Sandemanian Church; see Cantor (1991), 65.
7
Unidentified.

Please cite as “Faraday4210,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4210