To Thomas Archer Hirst   Saturday¹

Berlin Saturday –

My Dear Tom.

Today I received 65 Thalers and the account² – the latter was a problem to me but I have got through it –

The steamboat that carries me from Germany starts from Hamburg on Tuesday week – I leave Berlin Tomorrow week and shall thus have one clear day in Hamburg.³

Give Kohlrausch a copy of each of the English memoirs⁴ & greet him warmly for me. Knoblauch D^o – Gerling D^o – If you have any friend there to whom you would like to give a copy do so – to Wrightson for instance – send the rest to me – the parcel will cost about 10[SG]– Prof. Knoblauch will tell how to make them up – send them pretty quick – I shall want them in England – Kind wishes to Wrightson Davy and Dick –

I send you a letter which you sent me a day or two ago – it is from M^rs Allen⁵ and will interest you –

My next letter will probably be from England. Were you another than Tom Hirst should be giving you a parting wrd of advice – But Tom has better [monitors] than I – one word however – never despair Tom! fight away boy it is only thus you will learn the length and breadth of your own capabilities – I have felt every one of your trials the bowels inclusive and am still alive. and there are men who have battled through ten times as much as we both together –

I send you a scrap from Debus⁶ –

I have worked constant here and have quarried out material for a good memoir⁷ – you will hear of it in due time –

And now my pilgrimage in Germany is at an end – I can stick my Ebenezer here in the sands of Prussia and say with Jacob – ‘thus far have the gods helped me’⁸ –

Goodbye Tom – give me some notice of your plans when you have any! I will write to you immediatly after the Ipswich affair⁹ – Farewell my brother –

your affectionate Tyndall

You may remember that passage in Edmondsons last note¹⁰ – ‘I may trust you to lay out £20 judiciously’. To this I replied¹¹ – ‘of course you can trust me with the expenditure of £20 – you must trust me with more than that – we must trust each other M^r Edmondson – nothing more mischievous than a doubt could creep in between us – my ideal is that we should work together heart and hand and diligently trample out every suspicion’ – to this he send me a prompt answer – I send it to you¹² – M^r Edmondson is a man that was made to be ruled – If you suffer him to rule you he will set both himself and you out of order –

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