Dear Dr Tyndall
I interpretted your letter1 with the conversation we had at the Royal Society to mean that I might give your assent to the proposal of the managers.2
I read your letter & Mr. Faraday told the Managers that the bye law was never acted upon & that it was most desirable to leave you free.3 I thought the best plan would be to place your letter on the minutes so that you & the Managers may appeal to it & be guided by it.
You were recommended by the Managers for election and on the 6th of July4 you will be elected & may do what you please till January. I am not sure of the wording regarding the salary £200 but it begins from the day of election.
The Managers did not enter into the question of whether you could simultaneously hold the Jermyn St. Professorship.5 We had already decided that you were free to lecture anywhere but not to be professor elsewhere. So that this point was not spoken of. If you do not find that we make the Institution all you wish then you must try the Museum.
I gave a positive assent to your accepting our Professorship now & I spoke strongly on your letter being on the minutes and it is there.6
I hope you will never have cause to regret this step
I am sorry to hear of your head aches. Rest. Rest is my prescription.
Ever yours most truly | H Bence Jones
June 6. 1853
RI MS JT/1/J/52
RI MS JT/1/TYP/683
your letter: see letter 0765.
the managers: of the RI (see letter 0762).
bye law … free: see letters 0762, n. 2 and 0765, n. 5.
Election … on the 6th of July: Tyndall was actually elected on 4 July (see letter 0762, n. 5).
Jermyn St. Professorship: see letters 0764, n. 6 and 0721, n. 9.
it is there: letter 0765.
Please cite as “Tyndall0766,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on