Kinsale
August 3rd,
Dear Tyndall
I send the books according to promise. Give the letter to my sister Mrs Harrison1 when you go out of the Clarence Dock2 gate. Any one will shew you Mr Harrisons,3 corner of William Street opposite the upper dock gate of the dock. You and Latimer can go there but go decent (offence apart) as they set a great opinion on appearances in Liverpool. You may also see my elder brother – and my fat comfortable-looking sister. I have no news. I got home quite safe and was glad that I had not stopped for the reason you know. Please God we may meet again at the furthest next summer. Till when all good angels guard you! and may the spirit of good luck lead you into pleasant quarters and comfortable quibberies4 and Lord send that the roast beef and pudding of old England5 may put some lining on your skeleton. Keep clear of the exvertuous6 females of Liverpool and don’t be deluded but live wholesomely and chastely until I see you again. Kiss Latimer for me and kiss the quay wall and kiss Miss Tidmarsh who lives on it. Tell them for me that I will call on them when next in Cork. And now my poor old comrade farewell, adieu, goodbye, good luck to you, caed mille falthagh7 &c. Amen. Yours while memory sparkles
J. Chadwick – late C.A.8
Do not forget the World’s End9 whose occupant will be looking into futurity for a letter from you. My younger brother10 is worth cultivation if you have time for it, you may be fixed in Liverpool. I send a few lines to Dick Hunter.
RI MS JT 1/11/3498
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Mrs Harrison: On 14 July 1844 Tyndall recorded in his Journal that Chadwick’s ‘sister Mrs Harrison to whom he gave me a letter of introduction when I first went to Liverpool …is dead’ (vol. 13a, p. 47).
Clarence Dock: see letter 0150, n. 28.
Mr Harrison: not identified.
quibberies: not identified.
the roast beef and pudding of old England: As in the patriotic ballad ‘The Roast Beef of Old England’, composed by Henry Fielding for The Grub-Street Opera (1731), the dish symbolized English national prosperity and power.
exvertuous: presumably unvirtuous.
caed mille falthagh: céad míle fáiltea, Gaelic for a hundred thousand welcomes.
C.A.: Civil Assistant.
the World’s End: see letter 0072, n. 1.
My younger brother: possibly Richard Chadwick, who had joined the Irish Ordnance Survey in July 1839 before resigning in November (NAI OS/1/16).
Please cite as “Tyndall0157,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0157