Dear Ginty,
I am much obliged to you for your kind offer regarding the Athenaeum2 but I regret to say that I shall not be able to avail myself of it. I shall have so much to do between June and October3 that the course you propose is quite beyond my ability – Circumstanced as I am here you will readily see that it is out of my power to get any other than a written opinion from Capt. Wynne and I feel as strong a reluctance as you do to asking him for it. I shall be in town at the end of May and shall see him and ask his verbal opinion but this perhaps will be too late for your purpose. Has the rail not yet been tested?4 You know he is not a man to do a thing under the rose and the statement that no public use would be made of his opinion would I am afraid have little weight with him – indeed I hardly think he would do anything privately in such a matter that he would shrink from doing publicly. Just think of the character of the man and I am sure you will be of my opinion.
Affectionate regards to Mrs Ginty.5 | most truly yours | J. Tyndall. | Thursday.
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[Late November 1843]: this date is uncertain; it was inferred from letter 0266.
your kind offer regarding the Athenaeum: see letter 0266, in which Ginty suggests that Tyndall apply for a position at the Liverpool Athenaeum news room.
much to do between June and October: possibly a reference to Tyndall’s plans to emigrate to America; see letters 0234, 0251, 0254, 0259, and 0281.
Has the rail not yet been tested?: not identified.
Mrs Ginty: probably William Ginty’s mother; Ginty did not marry until 1846.
Please cite as “Tyndall0275,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0275