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To Thomas Archer Hirst1

My dear Tom.

I send you my introductory lecture.2 I want you to scarify it and where it is muddy to clarify it. Dont spare it boy. Tell me what you conceive to be its faults and I will adopt your notions just so far as they suit me. The corrections I have made in an awkward manner. You will have to open the sheet out to see the corrections referred to by the letter (a1 (b) &c in the text. You may keep it as long as you like – take time and give it a good looking over. You might ask Heinrichs3 opinion where you think it necessary.

affectionately yours | John

RI MS JT/1/T/575

1

[19 October 1853]: on 19 October Tyndall’s journal stated, ‘Finished my introductory lecture this morning and sent it off to Tom’ (Journal, JT/2/13b/628).

2

my introductory lecture: see letter 0809, n. 6.

3

Heinrichs: Heinrich Debus.

Please cite as “Tyndall0811,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0811