From William Ginty   Wednesday evening | Nov. 8th 1843.

Wednesday evening | Nov. 8th 1843.

Dear Jack

No man knows what a day may bring forth – hurrah for the glorious 21st.1 I have received notice to quit2 and deliver up all that and those that part of the Ordnance Survey office in my possession for the last 7 years. Holy Nelly I’m classed among the inefficient C.A’s3 and also Taylor and James Livingston4– This worthy soul was one of the leading nuisances in the memorialists,5 he is 3rd or 4th best man in this division 3 and something per day – and of 7 years standing. His dismissal surprizes me more than my own. Now – I expect there is a fellow named Tyndall on the list of inefficients too and Allen, and Evans, and Latimer6 eh? Speed! Postman speed! Now what’s to be done – We must rise a row in some way and as you are Master Devil I submit, if you tell me to burn the office it shall blaze, aye in graceful columns it shall curl towards heaven as the smoke of their torments. Grogan7 is dismissed – this is the fellow that got the 9d for not signing the petition, he was recommended to be mulct of some of his pay8 last month for some bad surveying – the Captain9 said it was no time to be reducing men and so recommended him to be dismissed. Johnson10 he that lived with Taylor goes too, but he is entitled to it to some extent. I can’t say more tonight – This is unfortunate at the present time. I might have been better prepared. If there is a job to get in Liverpool I’ll fork it out

Yours | The, Attorney General11 | defunct.

RI MS JT/1/TYP/11/3620

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1

the glorious 21st.: the date on which the dismissed surveyors would depart; see letter 0262.

2

I have received notice to quit: see letter 0262 for a copy of this notice.

3

C.A’s: Civil Assistants.

4

James Livingston: unidentified member of the Ordnance Survey.

5

the memorialists: the authors and signatories of the letter of protest sent by the workers of the Ordnance Survey of England to George Murray, Master General of the Ordnance on 23 September 1843; see letter 0236.

6

Latimer: George Latimer.

7

Grogan: unidentified member of the Ordnance Survey.

8

he was recommended to be mulct of some of his pay: i.e., to have some of his pay withheld or taken (OED).

9

the Captain: probably Henry Tucker.

10

Johnson: unidentified member of the Ordnance Survey.

11

Attorney General: one of Ginty’s nicknames.

Please cite as “Tyndall0263,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0263