24th. Jan.
My dear Mrs Steuart,
I most heartily sympathise with you in your great loss.2 Believe me that every thing that gives you sorrow gives it to me also.
I thought of not troubling you with the enclosed;3 but on second thought decided to send it to you.
Yours ever | John Tyndall
RI MS JT/1/TYP/10/3336
LT Typescript Only
24 January [1853]: while the letter was dated 24 January it was likely written in 1853. Letter 0842 may be a reply to it.
your great loss: likely in reference to Elizabeth Steuart’s husband, William Richard Steuart (1798–1852), who had been seriously ill (see letters 0586 and 0593) and died in 1852. See also letter 0842.
enclosed: not identified.
Please cite as “Tyndall0707,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on