Queenwood 12th Oct. 1852.
My dear Francis,
I return you Adies paper;1 by all means give him a place – a prominent one and not in the miscellaneous if you can afford it. I will submit the matter to an experimentum crucis myself in a few days and hope to furnish a reply to this note which will set Mr Adie at rest forever.2
Most cordially do I I3 return Mr Taylor’s kind greeting. You must studiously avoid all the old topics of vexation4 and still avoid them so as not to arouse his curiosity – he must be treated I imagine on these subjects with apparent frankness for if he gets the idea that you are keeping matters secret, his own imagination will do the rest – Your care and the quiet of Sydenham5 will I doubt not eventually make his cure complete.
I will send you Clausius very soon and along with it the remainder of Helmholtz.6 Thanks for the little reference to Ronalds7 – any thing you hear pro or con I should be glad to be made acquainted with.
Sincerely yours | Tyndall
RDS 27/15
Adie’s paper: published as R. Adie, ‘On the temperature of a bismuth and antimony joint during the passage of an electric current’, Phil. Mag., 4:26 (November 1852), pp. 380–1. See also letter 0672, n. 3.
at rest forever: see letter 0685 for Tyndall’s reply to Adie, which was published as a letter to the editor in the December number of the Phil. Mag.
I: Tyndall repeated this ‘I’, which appeared as the first word on the second page of the letter.
old topics of vexation: see letter 0664, n. 10.
Sydenham: ibid.
Clausius … Helmholtz: for Clausius see letter 0664, n. 3 and 0666, n. 5; for Helmholtz see letter 0664, n. 5.
Ronalds: Edmund Ronalds.
Please cite as “Tyndall0670,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0670