From William Ginty   August 1842

Here1 I am since 12 o’clock waiting for you fellows2 to come in (now 2)3 I told you I would be back shortly – also that I would come here about noon – but I suppose you are not so feminine as to think a shake of the paw essentially requisite under present circumstances – yet I suppose it would have been the last – perhaps for ever.

Well I wish you prosperity with a sincerity of no common kind – I will write to you shortly. I’ll write – I’ll write while I have a hand to guide the pen or an eye to see the paper.

Good Bye | Yours ever faithfully | Ginty

Taylor is here waiting also – and off I must go – or it will be too dark. 12 miles4 no laughing matter!

‘Well I will dream &c.’5

I may be back on Monday,6 if so it will be early

RI MS JT 1/11/3580

LT Transcript Only

here: presumably Clarence Dock in Liverpool; see letter 0150, n. 28. LT added a handwritten insertion to this letter stating ‘Picture of Clarence Dock &c. accompanies this’.

you fellows: Tyndall travelled to England with Robert Baskin, David Doig, Jnr (see letter 0143, n. 12), John Holland (see letter 0143, n. 15), William Hunter, George Latimer, John McGowan (see letter 0143, n. 16), John O’Neill, John Todd (see letter 0115, n. 11) and another civil assistant called William Henehan.

since 12 o’clock waiting …(now 2): Tyndall’s ship, PS Ocean, did not arrive until 8pm; see letter 0160. This was presumably a late arrival as when Thomas Charles Higginson sailed the same route from Cork to Liverpool in September 1841, he told Tyndall that he ‘arrived in Liverpool on Saturday at half past three in the evening [i.e. afternoon]’; see letter 0097.

12 miles: Ginty presumably means the round trip from and to Crosby; see letter 0150, n. 3.

‘Well I will dream &c.’: ‘Well – I will dream that we may meet again’, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18), II.ix.5.

I may be back on Monday: Tyndall’s account of his arrival in letters 0161 and 0162 suggests that he was met by Ginty, and William Latimer, as soon as he arrived, so Ginty must have changed his plans, perhaps after meeting Latimer.

Please cite as “Tyndall0159,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0159