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Faraday to John Tyndall   10 September 18591

Dundee Saturday

My dear Tyndall

I heard of the offer to you on Loch Lomond2. I hope you will accept it & have no time to say more or I shall lose the post[.]

Ever yours | M. Faraday

1
Dated on the basis of the reference to Loch Lomond.
2
This was for the post of Professor of Physics at the School of Mines, Jermyn Street (Eve and Creasey (1945), 81). Faraday had heard of the offer from Huxley when they met on Loch Lomond on 4 September 1859. Huxley to Tyndall, 5 September 1859, RI MS JT/1/TYP/9, pp.2893-4.

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