Sarah Faraday and Faraday1 to Margery Ann Reid   June 1864

your Aunt2 [MS torn] would have been to see us but Mrs Bell3 is not very well she has been quite overdone with her husbands4 & James5 illness, but she speaks well of your Aunt & so does Mary6 who went to see her last week. She said she seemed more interested in a book she was reading “Verners Pride” 7 than usual & she


Sweet love to you my dear Margery from your Old Uncle and love to your companions too. I think back on the great share I have received from my dear friends[.] There is no other condition or quality amongst the minds of men that shines & works with the same beauty. Loving must from the sense of the need of much forgiveness on the part of those who do so love and far more wonderfully on his part also of whom it is said behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us that we. s8 -

Yours in fear - in hope | M. Faraday


Endorsed: June | 1864

1
Charlotte Buchanan who was living with the Bells by this time at 33 Grove Road. See her GRO death certificate.
2
The first paragraph is in Sarah Faraday’s hand, the second in Faraday’s.
3
Jane Graham Hay Bell, née Campbell (d.1898, age 91, GRO). Wife of J.Z. Bell whom she married in 1831.
4
John Zephaniah Bell (1794–1883, AlKL). Scottish artist living in London with strong Sandemanian connections. Cantor (1991), 51.
5
Unidentified.
6
Probably Mary Chater Barnard.
7
Wood (1863).
8
1 John 3: 1.

Please cite as “Faraday4464,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 4 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4464