It is not mine but the good genius’s which gave it to me to distribute.3 […]4 You must not flatter yourself that the cheque which I enclose has any reference to the friendship we may entertain for each other, it is simply for little Booth5 for whom I have a tender regard, were any circumstance to occur that would render 5 times the sum of the slightest use to you it would not rest in my pocket for an hour.
I am my dear Tyndall | Yours faithfully | James B. Bevington
RI MS JT/2/13b/597
LT Typescript Only
From James B. Bevington: this is only a fragment of the original letter, which is no longer extant. Tyndall copied out parts of the letter in his journal on 22 January (JT/2/13b/597).
[20] January 1853: Tyndall noted receipt of Bevington’s letter on 22 January (see n. 1).
to distribute: Tyndall noted in his journal, ‘Found letters at home, one of which I will further notice: It was from Bevington enclosing £20 for Booth: I was puzzled what to do with it and at last determined to forward it to Booth’ (22 January, JT/2/13b/597).
[…]: after quoting the previous sentence in his journal, Tyndall wrote that Bevington ‘wants me to go and spend two or three days with him at Wandsworth, and concludes his letter with the following words’ (22 January, JT/2/13b/597). Those words are the last sentence in the letter above.
little Booth: Francis Booth, a friend who was unwell. See letters 0698 and 0703.
Please cite as “Tyndall0706,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on