Sir,
I am reluctant to leave Germany without seeing a man whom from my boyhood I have been taught to regard as the greatest genius now existing – I mean yourself. – Will you grant me the honour of an interview?2
I remain Sir | Your most obedient Servant | John Tyndall
RI MS JT/2/6/59
JT Transcript
24 May 1851: dated from Journal entry (25 May 1851, JT/2/6/59): ‘Wrote the following note to Humboldt yesterday and sent it in accompanied by 3 memoirs’. Presumably, one was his recent memoir on magnetism (cited letter 0464, n. 2). Other candidates are the water-jet paper (see letter 0456, n. 1) and the memoirs written with Knoblauch (see letters 0395, n. 22 and 0403, n. 2).
grant me … an interview: Humboldt proposed Monday 26 May (letter 0487).
Please cite as “Tyndall0486,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0486