Friday, | Mill Street,1 July 17th 1841
My dear Tyndall
When I was coming in from work I met the messenger and to comply with your request sat down to write to you not indeed that I had any thing particular to communicate only that if I did not write to you you would not write to me, There is a strong report here that there are five men to be discharged2 at the end of this month and that the remainder are to go into the office when this work is done I suppose if I am not discharged that we will be soon together again but I think that bloody Collins will do all in his power to get me off3, but no matter. I hear that the conservative member is put out for Carlow they did not do like poor Dublin that gave Dan4 the decent turn out. I wonder you did not go home with the others
Dear Tyndall, I have no more to say to you that have all the news. Write to me soon. Remember me to Foy and Collins bad luck to him
I remain yours ever attached | T.C. Higginson
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Mill Street: a market town 25 miles north-west of Cork.
five men to be discharged: Robert Martin and Archibald McLachlan may have been among the men considered for discharge as they were transferred to the English Survey in August 1841.
to get me off: Higginson remained on the Irish Survey until September 1841, when he joined the English Survey in Yorkshire.
Dan: Daniel O’Connell, who had won the election contest for Dublin City.
Please cite as “Tyndall0077,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0077