Tyneholm Pencaitland N. B.1 | 10 Dec. 54
Dear Sir
Having been informed you wished my address – intending sending me a copy of your interesting paper, on the Vibrations of Metallic and other substances when in contact at different temperatures2 – which I assure you will be accepted with pleasure3 – I now write – and in the mean time beg your acceptance of the enclosed.4
Yours faithfully | Arthur Trevelyan
Dr. Tyndall | Royal Institution, London5
RI MS JT/1/TYP/5/1774
LT Typescript Only
Tyneholm Pencaitland N. B.: Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland, a village 12 miles southeast of Edinburgh.
your interesting paper … at different temperatures: see letter 0876, n. 14.
which I assure you will be accepted with pleasure: Tyndall must have sent the paper, as Trevelyan commented on it in a later letter to Tyndall (see letter 1023).
of the enclosed: not identified.
London: this is probably from the envelop as LT wrote ‘To’ above it.
Please cite as “Tyndall1019,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on