John Tyndall to Faraday   9 July 18531

London, Saturday

Dear Prof Faraday

I regretted on reaching London that I had started two days too late to find you here. I should gladly have had a little conversation with you regarding lectures and concerning a few instruments which I think we shall find useful. On the latter point however I will write to you again from Berlin.

It struck me while looking over the apparatus that a course on heat might be rendered interesting. If you have no objection therefore I would propose a course of 12 on this subject2. Should it interfere at all with your arrangements I shall be most happy to choose something else.

Your table-turning article I read with great relish3 - every body has read it. It has worked wonderful change in the minds of many. I believe you will find the ladies most impenitent upon the subject.

Should you desire to say any thing to me soon a letter addressed to the Post office Berlin will find me. As soon as I arrive however I will write to you and send you my address.

I hope you will find your vacation pleasant and profitable and that you will return to town with renewed vigour. My head is still a little wary which you will probably have already inferred, but I am getting stronger daily and shall soon be in good working order.

My kind respects to Mrs Faraday

Most sincerely Yours | John Tyndall

1
Dated on the basis that this was the first Saturday after Tyndall had reached London. See Tyndall, Diary, 10 July 1853, 5: 217-20. On p.218 he noted his visit to the Royal Institution on 8 July 1853.
2
Tyndall delivered a course of seven lectures on “Some Phenomena of Heat” after Easter 1854. RI MS GB 2: 83.

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