Broughton, | Dec. 14th 1854
My dear John.
I am very sorry you are yet so weak.1 It is useless saying how sorry I am you are not going to Ireland for in fact I should not like you to go unless you could do so without all hesitation and scruple, or fear of consequences2 – On Tuesday morning I start and as soon after I am married as I can I will write. Yours affectionately | T.A. Hirst.
Either you or I made a mistake in the date – I shall be married on Wednesday the 27th3
Anna’s4 address now (and mine too after Tuesday) is Robert Ross Todd Esq.5 Solicitor Newry Ireland.6 The lads are making a capital examination, our friend Alex7 is doing his work magnificently, there is little doubt he will be 1st in the school and none whatever that he will carry away my half-yearly prize. He has got his appointment to the military school of the East India Company.8
RI MS JT/1/H/210
RI MS JT/1/HTYP/380
you are yet so weak: Tyndall mentioned that he was not feeling well (see letter 1020).
not going to Ireland … fear of consequences: Tyndall wrote that he would not be able to attend Hirst’s wedding due to his commitments in London and his health (see letter 1020).
Either you or I … Wednesday the 27th: Hirst originally wrote to Tyndall that the date was 27 December (see letter 1018), but Tyndall remembered the date as the 29th (see letter 1020, n. 4).
Anna’s: Anna Martin.
Robert Ross Todd Esq.: Robert Ross Todd (n.d.), an Irish solicitor who worked on the expansion of the railway between Newry and Armagh, Ireland (‘Dundalk to Newry’, in The Railway Companies [eds.], The Tourist’s Illustrated Hand-book for Ireland with Maps and Illustrations [London: John Cassell, 1852], pp. 229–32, on p. 230).
Newry Ireland: a city in Northern Ireland, 34 miles from Belfast.
our friend Alex: Alick, or Alexander Cumming.
appointment to … the East India Company: see letters 1014 and 1016.
Please cite as “Tyndall1021,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on