From John Tyndall, Snr   Sep. 10th, 1841.

Mr John Tyndall | Ordnance Survey Office | Kinsale

Leighlin Bridge | Sep. 10th, 1841.

My dear John

I received a second letter from you¹ this moment after it passed through Stradbally in the Queens County. I am glad to perceive from your letter that there is some mistake with regard to the calumny said to be heaped on you by Linedale² I went to Bagenalstown with your letter and read that portion of it that contained the supposed slander to the Payne family. They said that though believing him to be a blackguard still his character of you then was noble, he said that the first gentleman in the land need not be ashamed to acknowledge you for his son, and that if any thing bad of you was said by him to Corporal Davey, it was Anne McGee³ that prompt him to it as you seemed to be opposed to their marriage as indeed all her friends in Bagenalstown were.

That piece you sent me against popery⁴ was excellent, he was an hardy brat that wrote it. I have White’s reply to the Jesuit Fisher⁵ – a discussion that took place before King James the first⁶ – it is a first rate work but too large to send you, having cost a pound when reprinted in 1818. I am glad to let you know that Mrs Groves is better and good hopes of her recovery

I am your affectionate father | John Tyndall

I could not read the whole of Corporal Davey’s scrawl myself, or indeed make sense of what I did read.

RI MS JT/1/10/3242

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