There is perhaps one and but one class of individuals entitled under any circumstances to treat others with contempt, namely those who are above the reach of it themselves. Are you among the latter? Your ‘silence’ I have already experienced, your ‘contempt’ is an airy nothing for which no true man will care a jot, in fact you can’t afford the thing. I will await your convenience for a ‘day or two’ and shall peruse with interest your annotations on the phrase ‘your injured friend’.2
J.T.
RI MS JT/2/13b/374
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To Thomas Foy: This fragment was transcribed in Tyndall’s journal entry for 7 August 1848. Tyndall wrote: ‘Foy wrote lest I should consider that he had treated my letter with silent contempt, and subscribed himself “your injured friend”. Wrote to him as follows’ RI MS JT/2/13b/374). For Tyndall’s previous letter to Foy, see letter 0354.
‘your injured friend’: the quotations in this letter presumably came from a missing letter by Foy.
Please cite as “Tyndall0355,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0355