Sarah Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   8 August 1867

Hampton Court | 8th Augt 1867

My dear Friend & Brother

I must write a few lines in answer to yours which was very refreshing & brought to mind the Scripture, “Wherefore comfort yourselves together & edify one another even as also ye do”1 - but I write in pain for I still cannot sit with comfort so you will excuse a short note, I am very glad to hear good accounts of you all & that Ellen is enjoying her visit from Mrs. Thomas Loveday2, I daresay this continued damp weather affects her as well as me.

I accomplished my visit to town last Saturday3 & saw your Annie for a few moments but have not heard of her since poor girl I am sorry to find that fall was more serious than anticipated but hope she will do well with care.

I have been much interested with Froudes4 account of Erasmus5 & Luther6 & am obliged to you for giving me the pleasure of reading it7[.]

Jane is in town & we are rather anxious about my dear husband when she is away for it is so difficult now to get him to take food.

With kind love to all friends | Believe me very affectionately yours | S. Faraday

1
1 Thessalonians 5: 11.
2
Magdalene Loveday, née Nicol (d.1899, age 78, GRO). Wife of Thomas Marsh Loveday (d.1908, age 95, GRO) a foundryman in Old Buckenham (1861 census, TNA RG9/1235, f.63, p.20). He had been a member of the Sandemanian Church there since 1841 (DUA Acc M/409/5/3, p.130) and she since 1863 (DUA Acc M/409/5/3, p.135). They married in 1861.
3
That is 3 August 1867.
4
James Anthony Froud (1818–1894, ODNB). Historian.
5
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466–1536, ER). Dutch humanist.
6
Martin Luther (1483–1546, ER). German theological reformer.
7
J.A. Froude, ‘Times of Erasmus and Luther’ in Froude (1867), 1: 37-145.

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