Woolwich | Sept. 27/51.
Dear Sir,
I have to apologise for the delay in replying to your note of the 1st of Sept.,1 but I was desirous of reading over carefully the memoirs2 which you were so obliging as to send for my perusal, and, having been much pressed by duties, I have been unable to command time to do so until now. I was moreover aware that a reply any time in this month would be sufficiently early for your digest.
Permit me to say that I could not read your writings without feeling some degree of regret at the prospect of the separation, more or less, which the distance of Toronto must occasion, from the intercourse which you have so happily cultivated with some of the most distinguished Physicists of Europe,3 and which is so valuable as a stimulus. I trust however that you will find a residence in America not incompatible with very frequent visits to Europe.
I remain, Dear Sir | very sincerely Yours | Edward Sabine
Dr. Tyndall
RI MS JT/1/TYP/4/1295
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your note … Sept: letter missing.
the memoirs: presumably the same memoirs that Tyndall sent with other requests for testimonials (see letter 0518, n. 2).
Permit … Europe: Tyndall quoted from Sabine’s letter in letters to Francis (0536) and Hirst (0540). Notes to those letters identify the differences.
Please cite as “Tyndall0535,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0535