London, Saturday
Dear Prof Faraday
I regretted on reaching London that I had started two days too late to find you here.2 I should gladly have had a little conversation with you regarding lectures and concerning a few instruments which I think we shall find useful. On the latter point however I will write to you again from Berlin.3
It struck me while looking over the apparatus4 that a course on heat might be rendered interesting. If you have no objection therefore I would propose a course of 12 on this subject. Should it interfere at all with your arrangements I shall be most happy to choose something else.
Your table-turning article5 I read with great relish – every body has read it. It has worked wonderful change in the minds of many. I believe you will find the ladies most impenitent upon the subject.
Should you desire to say any thing to me soon a letter addressed to the Post office Berlin will find me. As soon as I arrive however I will write to you6 and send you my address.
I hope you will find your vacation pleasant and profitable and that you will return to town with renewed vigour. My head is still a little wary which you will probably have already inferred, but I am getting stronger daily and shall soon be in good working order.
My kind respects to Mrs Faraday | Most sincerely Yours | John Tyndall
RI MS JT/TYP/12/4018
Faraday Correspondence, 4:2699
[9 July 1853]: this would be the first Saturday after Tyndall’s arrival in London (see n. 2).
too late to find you here: Tyndall recorded in his journal on 10 July that he went to the Royal Institution on Friday 8 July only to find that Faraday had travelled to North Wales (JT/2/13b/609).
from Berlin: Tyndall was about to embark on a trip to Berlin (see letter 0773, n. 2).
apparatus: not identified.
Your table-turning article: see letter 0781, n. 14.
I will write to you: letter 0788.
Please cite as “Tyndall0783,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on