59 Montague Square | Jan. 23rd
My dear Mr Tyndall,
I hope you may be able to come to us on Tuesday evening1 the 30th between 9 and 10 o’clock. The Barlows2 and I hope some other of your friends will be here.
The weather3 has spited me with regard to your lectures. I was actually driven back by rain when I had made some part of my way towards you on the last occasion and to day I don’t feel strong enough to face the snow – It is a real disappointment to me.
Yours very truly | Juliet Pollock
RI MS JT/1/6/1882
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come to us on Tuesday evening: Tyndall recorded in his Journal, ‘On Tuesday evening [30 January] went to Pollock’s’ (RI MS JT/2/13c/724).
The Barlows: John Barlow and his wife Cecilia, née Law (1795–1868).
The weather: On 16 January, when Tyndall delivered his first lecture on ‘Electricity and Magnetism’ at the RI, ‘Snow fell early in the morning, which was followed by rain. About four p.m. the wind suddenly changed to E., which immediately introduced frost and snow’ (Morning Chronicle, 23 January 1855, p. 8). On 23 January (‘today’), the weather in London was ‘Snow falling from 8a.m. till noon. Snow now 4 inches deep on Blackheath, without drifting’ (Morning Chronicle, 31 January 1855, p. 3).
Please cite as “Tyndall1032,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on