Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   7 August 1863

5 Clairmont Gardens | Glasgow¹ | 7, August 1863.

My dear friend

Your letter from Old Buckenham² was a most welcome pleasure to all here:- to know that you had gone through the journey & with great hope that it might do good we trust that the hopes & wishes have since been realized & then how cheerily you will presently return home. I conclude that the party consisted of yourself - Mrs. Vincent & Annie[.] Our constant thoughts are with you all & our love. Your letter made us very happy. Our letters about Mrs. Buchanan made us dull. It is well for us that our hope & trust should be exercised that it may be placed on him who will never forsake his people³ - who worketh all things⁴ together for their good.

We have been received most affectionately here by all. Mr. Baxter has not made his appearance here & therefore it is concluded (& indeed known) that the case is compromised and that he has returned to Dundee. In an hour or two we start for Dundee - are to be received by the kind daughters of our old friend Dr. Crichton⁵ - in the old house in Tay Street. We propose returning here on the Wednesday (12 Aug) and I purpose returning to London on the Wednesday (or perhaps the previous Tuesday) according to our first plan.

Mr. More, Mr. Cowan, Mr. Sandeman & the friends here seem pretty well. Up to Wednesday Evening we had here our friends Mr Myddleton & Mr. Dyack from Aberdeen with their friend Mr. Sinclair and very pleasant it was to meet them⁶.

My recollection is failing me so I will not try to call up more of the agreeable events that have passed here. I am in a medium state of cheerfulness. I do not allow myself to be troubled by my own thought more than I can help.

Very dear brother | Yours Affectionately | M. Faraday

Mr. B. Vincent | &c &c &c

Jeannie’s love to Mrs. Vincent & Annie & to you all.