6th. Jan. 1854.
My dear Tom
I ought to be ashamed of myself. Not until to day have I been attentive enough to send off the book1 – I have been so full of other matters that this duty was neglected. I rely upon you coming to me in a few days, remember my first lecture is on the 17th.2 And I want you to look over the corrected proof before hand. Debus has spent a week with me3 – I lectured him awfully4 and he is gone back a more sensible man.
Yours affectionately, | John.
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the book: Price’s A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus (see letter 0823, n. 3). Hirst requested Tyndall to send him the first volume of this book in letter 0851, n. 9.
my first lecture is on the 17th: see letters 0867, n. 1 and 0809, n. 6.
Debus … with me: Debus visited Tyndall sometime at the end of December 1853. On 24 December 1853, Tyndall noted he ‘expected Debus but he in all probability is silly and stays away’ (Journal, JT/2/13b/648). He also noted that ‘Debus returned to Queenwood’ on 31 December 1853 (Journal, JT/2/13b/652).
lectured him awfully: possibly in reference to Debus’s ‘sullen fits’ (see letters 0850, n. 6 and 0848).
Please cite as “Tyndall0866,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on