I have come to the conclusion of making the proposal to defer further negociations to 6 months from the present time. Now if this arrangement suit you it will answer me admirably. There is a friend of mine going to study at Marburg and it will be a great pleasure to me if I can so arrange matters that we may spend the first 6 months of his time of study together.
If you have made any arrangements with reference to my coming to Queenwood I shall feel it my duty to see that you are not disappointed; but if it be all the same to you, or better still if it be a convenience to you, I should certainly prefer spending another 6 months in Germany.
Will you be good enough to grant me a reply to this by return.2
RI MS JT/1/T/954
JT Transcript Only3
[2 September 1850]: on 2 September 1850, Tyndall noted in his journal that he ‘wrote to Mr. Edmondson proposing to defer negociations’ (JT/2/13b/508).
reply to this by return: letter missing.
Transcript Only: the original letter is missing. We know it only through this extract, copied out by Tyndall in letter 0436 to Hirst.
Please cite as “Tyndall0434,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0434