Dear John Tyndall,
My boy2 having failed as a messenger of peace from me to thee,3 I will try a second time through the medium of my pen; not with a view to enter into explanations as before but to induce thee to let the affair4 be considered settled between us.– If I understand right I have offended thee by interfering to remedy a mistake into which I thought thou had inadvertently fallen, uncourteousness towards myself followed on thy part.
Let both be consigned to oblivion, not that of forgetfulness, but of forgiveness and let us meet as if no misunderstanding had occurred5
Thy sincere friend Anne Edmondson.
RI MS JT/2/6/80
JT Transcript
[30 November 1851]: the source for this letter is Tyndall’s journal (JT/2/6/80), copied in on 30 November, the morning it was written and received.
My boy: her son, George William.
Dear John Tyndall …thee: see letter 0478, nn. 2 and 3, on Quaker usage.
the affair: this occurred on the evening of 27 November (Tyndall had avoided the Edmondson’s since). It is explained, from Tyndall’s perspective, in the following letter.
Let both be consigned … no misunderstanding had occurred: after this sentence, and at the bottom left of the page in his journal, Tyndall added ‘most magnanimous!’ in rather bold handwriting.
Please cite as “Tyndall0578,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0578