To Julius Pluecker   4th September 1851

Queenwood College | Stockbridge Hampshire England | 4^th September 1851

Dear Sir

Circumstances have conspired to place me in the attitude of a petitioner to your kindness.¹

I intend to become a candidate for a professorship of physics now vacant in the University of Toronto, and as the testimony of one who ranks so high cannot fail to be of considerable influence on such I case, I am induced to make an effort to secure your support.

You know what I have done; it has been my misfortune to differ from you in some of your conclusions, but I believe this difference of opinion will have no influence upon my present application. I should have felt much pleasure in forwarding you a copy of my last investigation [on] ‘Diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action’² which appears in the philosophical Magazine for the present month by post, but the rates of postage I find are so high as to amount to a prohibition.

Should your leisure permit and should you deem my labours of sufficient value to justify the act on your part you would place me under a great obligation to you by sending me a testimonial.³

with best wishes | I remain dear sir | most faithfully yours | John Tyndall

Prof Plücker

I shall forward my application to Toronto about the 1^st of the next month. If therefore you grant me the honour of a reply any time within the present month it will suit my purpose.

J.T.

NRCC Plücker, Item #69 (Box 2/6/1)