Queenwood 13th Sept 1851.1
Dear Sir.
I am much obliged to you for the testimonial and still more for your valuable papers which I shall undoubtedly read with profit and pleasure.2 I am sorry to say that during my last investigation in Berlin I was compelled so to devote myself to the experimental portion of the subject that the literature of it was comparatively neglected. Otherwise I should in writing my paper have referred to the close connection which subsists between the theoretic views advanced by you in the March number of the Philosophical Magazine3 and my experiments – this neglect however I shall take care to redeem at some future time.
Your proof as to the influence of proximity would interest me extremely – As yet I have met with nothing which seriously militates against my notions on the subject. I am prepared at once to give them up if I see sufficient reason, but at present I have strong reasons for believing that the effect of proximity cannot be the reverse of what I have stated it to be.
I shall look with great interest to your promised paper in the Philosophical Magazine.4
with best wishes, | believe me dear Sir, | Most faithfully yours, | John Tyndall.
Prof. Thomson. | &c. &c.
RI MS JT/1/TYP/5/1534
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13th Sept 1851: Thomson wrote ‘Sept 15’, the date he received it, at the top of the letter.
the testimonial and ... papers: Thomson had sent copies of memoirs and a long letter with the testimonial (see letter 0528).
the theoretic views ... Philosophical Magazine: Thomson’s articles are cited ibid, nn. 3 and 14.
promised paper in the Philosophical Magazine: ibid, n. 16.
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