Queenwood Saturday.
My Dear Francis –
I just write to bespeak 10 or 12 pages (perhaps less) of the magazine for next month. I shall have a paper on Bismuth and its polarity,2 which I think will at least establish the precise position of this subject at present –
Testimonials are coming in; an admirable one reached me this morning from Bunsen3 – a capital one from Joule;4 and rather a mild one from Wartmann5 accompanied certainly by a very kind note – Du Bois6 has sent me a most excellent one too – I have written to all those you mentioned7 and expect answers in a day or two.
Bunsen mentions an article of his8 which he wishes to get introduced into some English Journal and proposes that it might be done through Playfair or Hoffmann – Now I have reason to believe that the said article is of the highest interest, it is on the Composition of the Plutonic rocks of Iceland – would you not like to have it in the magazine? The memoir has not yet reached me but I expect it by tomorrow’s post.
With kind greetings | believe me – | most truly yours | Tyndall
StBPL T&F, Authors’ letters
[6 September 1851]: dated by references to testimonials: Bunsen, Wartmann and Joule had written on 1, 2 and 4 September, respectively (letters 0520, 0521 and 0524), which means this letter was written 5 September at the earliest. It was written before 11 September, when Tyndall received a letter (0527) from Airy and 13 September when he received a testimonial (letter 0528) from Thomson, as he would have mentioned these if he had received them already (receipt recorded in Tyndall’s Journal JT/2/13b/549). The only Saturday between 5–11 September is 6 September.
paper on Bismuth and its polarity: Tyndall, ‘On the Polarity of Bismuth, Including an Examination of the Magnetic Field’, Phil. Mag., 2:12 (November 1851), pp. 333–44.
from Bunsen: letter 0520.
from Joule: letter 0524.
from Wartmann: letter 0521.
Du Bois: letter 0515.
all those you mentioned: this letter from Francis is missing.
an article of his: cited letter 0526, n. 2.
Please cite as “Tyndall0525,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0525