My dear Sir 1
Permit me, at the earnest solicitation of some particular friends,2 who with myself have entertained a very high opinion of your ability, to request you as a great favour to lend us your kind assistance by taking part in our humble endeavours against that Curse of our Country – Popery: provided it does not interfere with your situation, as in that case we should be very sorry that any unpleasant circumstances should ensue or that you should at-all suffer any inconvenience by your compliance with the request of
Yours sincerely | J. Holmes.
RI MS JT/5/16b/25
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My dear Sir: LT dates this letter ‘Youghal. April and May 1841’ and entitles it ‘Invitation to speak at public debating society’. As letters 0055 and 0056 contain possible references to this letter, it may predate both of these letters. However, as the sequence of letters is uncertain, this letter and the two that follow (which also concern the public debate) have been kept together.
some particular friends: unspecified but probably including William Ginty, John Tidmarsh, and Phillip Evans with whom Tyndall shared lodgings. According to Tidmarsh, Tyndall and the other junior employees of the Ordnance Survey in Youghal often engaged in vociferous debates at their lodging house. Hearing of these debates, the local people ‘requested [us] to give one of our “entertaining” discussions in the large room in the town’. (Tidmarsh, ‘Reminiscences of John Tyndall’, Southern Australian Register, 24 January 1894, p. 6).
Please cite as “Tyndall0057,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0057