From James P Joule   Sept 4 1851

Acton Square Salford | Manchester Sep 4 1851

Dear Sir,

I have very great pleasure in enclosing a Testimonial1 and sincerely hope you will succeed in obtaining a position which you are so qualified to fill.

Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours very truly | James P. Joule

Dr Tyndall | &c &c

I am much obliged for the papers which I have already seen in the Phil Mag2 and studied with great interest3

RI MS JT/1/J/136

enclosing a Testimonial: the letter requesting a testimonial has not been found.

the papers … Phil Mag: see letter 0518, n. 2. Assuming that Tyndall sent the same papers with every testimonial request (to English speakers), this lets us know that they were all from the Phil. Mag.

I am … great interest: this postscript is written sideways, along the inner margin of the letter.

Please cite as “Tyndall0524,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0524