My Dear Francis.
I send you the paper upon the polarity of Bismuth;2 with the exception of three or four pages which I shall probably forward to you tomorrow. I dont think the whole will occupy more than 12 pages of the magazine.
I send you a letter and testimonial from De la Rive,3 both very valuable. Also a document from the president of the University of Toronto.4 You will observe his remark regarding the authenticity of the documents. My notion was to forward the originals at the same time but I should certainly not like to lose them.
The translations will probably need authentication – and I know of nobody who can do this except yourself. Do you think you could manage it? – I think a testimonial from you also would be of service to me.
faithfully yours | J Tyndall
It would be well I think to print those French testimonials in French – dont you think so? My object is to get all out of my hands and on the way to Toronto by the 10th of October.5
13/6 Faraday6 vol I 1839
6/9 vol II
1£7 sell for 27/6
StBPL T&F, Authors’ letters
[30 September 1851]: in letter 0536 (29 September) Tyndall promised to send ‘the whole or the greater part’ of his paper on bismuth ‘tomorrow’, suggesting this letter was written on 30 September. This letter implies he had not yet finished the paper. The last few pages of the paper were sent the following day (1 October), with letter 0539.
paper on the polarity of Bismuth: cited letter 0525, n 2.
letter and testimonial from De la Rive: see letter 0522 for Tyndall’s request to De la Rive and letter 0534 (24 September) for De la Rive’s reply. This letter had not reached Queenwood by the time on 29 September that Tyndall wrote letter 0536.
document ... Toronto: missing.
October: the end of this letter is missing.
Faraday: It is possible that the note on prices was written by Francis in the process of carrying out Tyndall’s request, in letter 0536, that Francis buy him a second-hand copy of the first volume of Faraday’s ERE. Although there is no direct evidence of Tyndall requesting the second volume, in letter 0569 he asked Francis to send both. The price difference may allude to the difference between second-hand and new prices.
1£: the precise total is £1.0.3d.
Please cite as “Tyndall0538,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0538