Monday
Dear Tom
I am in the midst of a series of experiments2 & therefore can only say a word or two. Send me the £5 – I had half resolved this mor[nin]g not to go to Queenwood, it will be 25/ out of my pocket. but I hardly think I can let the consideration stop me – for I should like to be present at your Society3 & at your Concert4 Write to Bevington by all means give him a full account of the kind of a chap your friend Henry5 is – in all probability he will be able to help him. Dont hear of a money offer. I shall be able to render help in these cases myself at a future day and until then you must bear the brunt alone – I mentioned Hill I think once to Bevington. send him over two of Henry’s letters.6 Your letter to him7 is extremely good and wise – he is suspicious as most fellows like him and this he must [1 word illeg] of.
Debus has a spice of the same – give him time he will come [from] – his ills are more than half physical. I think I shall get a reputation here for straightforwardness for I have commenced with the resolution to venture plain, manly commonsense and Truthfulness in approach to the diplomacy of the world. If a man fails by following this principle he has something to encourage him in defeat.
ever yours affectionately | John
RI MS JT/1/T/583
[5 December 1853]: Hirst wrote ‘Dec 6 – 1853’ on the top of this letter, which was presumably the day he received it. ‘Monday’ was 5 December.
series of experiments: not identified.
your Society: Queenwood’s Mutual Improvement Society (see letter 0819, n. 16).
your Concert: see letter 0848, n. 6.
Henry: Henry Hill.
two of Henry’s letters: see letter 0848, n. 9.
Your letter to him: a letter Hirst wrote to Henry Hill, which Hirst included with his last letter to Tyndall (see letter 0848).
Please cite as “Tyndall0849,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on