30 Grosvenor St. | Oct. 19. 1852.1
My dear Sir,
I have ventured in addition to the Magnetism and Electricity to send you the first sheet on Molecular actions.2 No one will do it more justice; not to say more. Will you put the figures in the text and foot notes as they stand in the German – If when you have finished each sheet you will send it with the text we shall go to press at once. We shall not trouble you with proofs and reviews unless you wish to have them. I have written to Mr Barlow.3 You can have the great electro magnet4 without doubt.
The lecture5 should end as the hour strikes. Unless the subject is most attractive when five or ten minutes is not grumbled at.
I will write to you again when I know what day is fixed.
If any question arises regarding the report I shall be glad to answer it.
Asking your forgiveness for intruding the first sheet upon you
I am | Yours most truly | H. Bence Jones.
RI MS JT/1/TYP/2/669
LT Transcript Only
30 Grosvenor … 1850: LT has added ‘Addressed to Dr Tyndall. F. R. S. | Queenwood College | Stockbridge’ on the top of the transcript, most certainly from the envelope.
first sheet on molecular actions: a portion of Liebig’s ‘Annual Report’ for Tyndall to translate (see letters 0671 and 0683).
I have written to Mr Barlow: Barlow also wrote to Tyndall directly (letter 0675).
great electro magnet: the large electromagnet housed at the RI that Faraday used to discover diamagnetism (see letter 0675).
The lecture: the Friday Evening Discourse at the RI on 11 February 1853, where Tyndall gave a lecture entitled, ‘On the Influence of Material Aggregation Upon the Manifestation of Force’.
Please cite as “Tyndall0674,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0674