Faraday and Sarah Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   26 September 1865

4 Capel Terrace | Southend 26 Septr. | 8 AM.

My dear friend

Tuesday Morning has arrived as fine & beautiful as any morning of the time we have been here - all seeming good & dry and I think have done us much good - we are much pleased with the place & certainly give it a good character. I was intending to write to you by this mornings post to say we should be at home tomorrow - we shall see by breakfast time, & when the post comes in, & in the mean time I will write & say my say & I expect that my dear wife will write later. Thanks for your kind letters & the news in them. I forget the special incidents but I believe they were good. Your own house is full of interest. Remember us to Ellen your wife and the rest. I am ashamed of the results when I try to remember them but I do know that they treat me otherwise & I cannot quite let them go though memory fades day by day as to ease & health. I am quite well[.] Even this place can work on me yet.

But I must send this sheet off by this post - presently the more capable one will write. I intended to say that we shall be at home tomorrow but now I cannot say quite so much. My wife is not quite right at this moment we shall see & you shall hear in way or another. Remembrances to Miss Savage, Mr Anderson, & the two lines of friends which come respectively right under the name of each & if I am not at Barnsbury¹ tomorrow to the most dear friends. This is more like my mark than my writing, but it will serve a purpose.

Your Affectionate friend | M. Faraday

B. Vincent Esqr | &c &c &c

4 Capel Terrace | Southend | 26th Sepr.

My dear Friend,

I see I am expected to add my mite of information & I may just say I do not feel quite able for a journey with climbing of stairs tomorrow, this place is very pleasant in many respects but the air is so bright & every thing so lively that it is almost too much for me it suits my dear husband however & we have determined to stay till Thursday when I trust I shall feel better[.]

Most affectionately yours | S. Faraday