My dear Francis.
Can you inform me how many pages of the Scientific Memoirs will be filled by the manuscript2 I have already sent you.
Will you be able to let me have the printed copies of my paper in the Phil Trans3 before the end of the month? I should like to send a few copies off with the magazine4 if it were possible.
Since[re]ly yours | John Tyndall
RDS 27/21
[November – December 1852]: date is quite uncertain. The paper in the Phil. Trans. alluded to (n. 3) was received by the RS on 20 October 1852 and read 6 January 1853. Tyndall was translating papers for Scientific Memoirs from September 1852 to January 1853.
the manuscript: Tyndall had translated several papers – by Bunsen (letter 0666, n. 1), Knoblauch (letter 0651, n. 8), Clausius (letter 0664, n. 3), and Helmholtz (letter 0664, n. 5) – for the Scientific Memoirs. It is unclear which he alludes to here, or whether he means all those sent to Francis thus far.
my paper in the Phil Trans: see 0606, n. 1. The Phil. Trans. was printed by Taylor & Francis, so Francis would have had early copies, though we are not certain when those copies (of perhaps only the first part) would have been available.
the magazine: the Phil. Mag.
Please cite as “Tyndall0696,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 15 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0696