Cork | June 28/411
You blather2 of a fellow! I received your note3 this minute and I read it for them all and they were all greatly disappointed, however be here in the morning on Tuesday as they had a few friends invited and dont disappoint again. I am now going to finish the little plan The methodist house here4 was crowded to excess yesterday I suppose there was over 3 or 4 thousand persons there. There are a great deal of improvements here since you were here last. There is an ordination of methodist preachers to take place here. So be in time for it and several other little things too numerous to mention. I did not see any of the office beggars walking about here yet. I suppose you did not hear from the little beggar5 yet You mentioned that it was with a bit of stick you wrote your letter, why it is with a town pump6 I am writing this | Your varmint7
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Cork | June 28/41: postmark given by LT.
blather: voluble talk void of sense (OED).
your note: letter missing.
The methodist house here: Two Wesleyan chapels (St Patrick Street and Henry Street) and one Primitive Methodist chapel (French-church Street) are listed in Slater’s. It would appear that Tidmarsh, who came from Cork, was a Methodist.
the little beggar: possibly Phillip Evans.
with a town pump: presumably referring to the breadth of Tyndall’s handwriting; the pipe used on a town pump being perhaps 3–6 inches in diameter.
Your varmint: see letter 0068, n. 5.
Please cite as “Tyndall0070,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0070