nobody but you would have sent it to ‘Pharody’2 and no Professor except ‘Pharody’ would have known how to read it.
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RI MS JT/2/13b/626
LT Typescript Only
[6–7] October 1853: this response to letter 0806, dated 5 October, was received by Tyndall on 8 October, which was noted in his journal (Journal, JT/2/13b/626). Hirst must have written it on either 6 or 7 October.
‘Pharody’: Michael Faraday. Hirst was playing on George Cumming’s misspelling of Faraday’s name in a letter to Tyndall (see letter 0781, n. 14). Tyndall had circulated Cumming’s letter to both Faraday and Hirst (see letters 0790, n. 9 and 0806, n. 3).
Please cite as “Tyndall0807,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on