My dear Tom.
I send you the 1st half of a £10 note and will send you the 2nd as soon as I hear from you.
Since you told me that you are careless about your accounts2 I have felt anxious lest you should permit our matters3 to get into a state of complication. I hope you will avoid this by entering everything as it occurs.
Yours affection | John
RI MS JT/1/T/576
[28 October 1853]: Hirst wrote ‘Octr 28 1853’ at the top of this letter but that may refer to the date he received it.
you told me … accounts: not identified.
our matters: Tyndall had been borrowing money from Hirst since late 1849, when Hirst discovered his inheritance upon the death of his mother, Hannah Oates Hirst (1804–49) (see letter 0382).
Please cite as “Tyndall0813,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on