Queenwood College | Sept. 3rd. 1854.
My dear Dr. Tyndall,
We have just come from church and it was very warm I go to east Titherly1 to church because there is not room for us all at Broughton there are a hundred and ten boys.2 We had a cricket match at stock bridge on Wednesday and we were beaten3 but I think we are going to have another match soon. Last Tuesday Papa4 was in London he was going to the continent I think he will come and see us. Yesterday I went with a good many other boys to bathe and Mr Iliff came with us I had a very nice bathe and on Wednesday we bathed in the cannal and Mr Haas came with us and before when he came to look for a place to bathe George William5 got in and there was a boat coming along and he caut6 hold of the boat and it carryed him along down the canal. It has been very warm for the last week and I hope it will continue this morning there was a thick fog but it soon cleared away.
I remain, | Your affectionate friend | Tommy Grieve.
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east Titherly: misspelling of East Tytherley, a small village in Hampshire, England.
a hundred and ten boys: students at Queenwood College. Hirst had mentioned earlier that 110 boys arrived for the beginning of classes (see letter 0961, n. 5).
We had a cricket match … were beaten: an account of the match can be found in R. Dunville, ‘Miscellaneous’, The Queenwood Observer 2:5 (31 August 1854), pp. 33–40, on pp. 33–4.
Papa: possibly H. M. Grieve (see letter 0839); not further identified.
George William: George William Edmondson.
caut: LT notes: ‘sic’. Misspelling of caught.
Please cite as “Tyndall0969,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on