My dear Sir,
I have abstained from writing to congratulate you sooner on the award of the Royal Medal,2 because I have desired that Mr Gassiot, who proposed the award, should be the first person to announce it to you. I will only add the great satisfaction it has given me to witness the general and rapid acknowledgement of your scientific labours, and, in that, the confirmation of the opinion which I expressed to you some time since that the mother country was your proper field.3
You will be aware that you will have to attend at the anniversary meeting on the 30th Nov. to receive the Medal from Lord Rosse.
Believe me always | Sincerely yours | Edward Sabine.
RI MS JT/2/13b/633
LT Typescript Only
[9] November 1853: on 9 November, Tyndall noted the receipt of Sabine’s letter after receiving Gassiot’s letter (letter 0821) in his journal (JT/2/13b/633). That he received it in the evening suggests that Sabine wrote to Tyndall the same day.
the Royal Medal: see letter 0815, n. 3.
the opinion which I expressed … mother country was your proper field: see letter 0535.
Please cite as “Tyndall0822,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on