From John Tyndall, Snr   Sep. 18th. 1841.

Mr John Tyndall | Ordinance Survey Office | Kinsale

Leighlin Bridge | Sep. 18th. 1841.

My dear John

I received a letter from you¹ this morning and am glad to hear that Linedale’s conduct was not so bad as was represented and, tho’ at the same time not so innocent as to cause an acquittal. If he has said anything against you, blame Anne McGhee, for it is she was angry with you for writing anything against Linedale’s being married to her.² I am happy to find that your appetite is so good that you can swallow a whale with as great ease as you would a herring. This is stomach extraordinary! Mr Conwill would be glad to have the like at present, but he has not as he lies very ill with a cold and not able to write to you. I am very glad to know that you will take my advice with regard to your boating excursions as such a practice is dangerous. With regard to what the County Surveyor has yearly, as you expressed a wish to know in your letter to Mr Conwill,³ he has they say a hundred a year and his deputies from fifty to sixty each. If we could get for you a situation in the revenue it would be much better and after some time there will be exertions made for you. At present the Government is only in its infancy⁴ – I mean in point of time – for in other respects it is the strongest, O’Connell says, ever formed.

That drawing school you have commenced with will be of great service to you and you do well to let nothing pass that will have a tendency to your improvement. I have now to ask you what did that ill looking head and face represent that you placed on your letter it represents some person with a tremendious big nose. John McGee is in Leighlin, his wife⁵ is teaching school. They are badly off. He was at this house last night for a long time speaking to your mother and myself.

Your uncle Caleb is well, but there was a cow stabbed or shot on his land on Thursday last. It did not belong to him, but was sent there to graze by some person in Bagenalstown, as it was on the farm he took from Tom Wall⁶ the deed was done. He has great need to mind himself and so has your father. But I think for my part that I will take care of myself as good people are scarce. Patt Moran⁷ is pronounced past recovery in a fever and its not expected he will pass this night. We are all well, I will now conclude.

Your affectionate father | John Tyndall

RI MS JT/1/10/3244

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