My dear Francis,
I have just received the enclosed.
[…]2
I find my head-ache still persistent. I dare I say I shall not be well until I get free from every thing. With reluctance therefore I must ask you to get Bunsen’s paper translated.3 Debus tells me it is a very important one and he does not think it [1 word illeg] out. I have Hirst at work on one in the Annals4 and I am engaged at one of Plucker’s myself on the mathematical theory of diamagnetism.5 Were I not so very shaky in the very region which I require for this work I should be sorry to give you the least trouble with this concluding number.6
ever truly yours | John Tyndall
RDS 27/32
[27 June–3 July 1853]: ‘July 1853’ was handwritten in pencil in the upper right corner. Tyndall noted receipt of this letter ‘a few days ago’ in his journal entry of 6 July, but he had not yet received it at the time of his previous entry on 26 June (Journal, JT/2/13b/607–8).
[…]: Tyndall had copied letter 0776encl.
Bunsen’s paper translated: see letter 0745, n. 12.
the Annals: Hirst was working on this translation (see letter 0775, n. 4).
Plucker’s … diamagnetism: see letter 0710, n. 4. Jackson states that it is unclear as to which paper this is (Jackson, ‘Tyndall and Diamagnetism’, p. 27).
concluding number: the last instalment of Tyndall and Francis (eds.), Scientif. Mem. (see letter 0771, n. 12).
Please cite as “Tyndall0776,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on