Monday
My dear DuBois
If you are not better engaged will you dine with me on Thursday à la Luther & Wegner1 (but not half so good) at Anderton’s Hotel2 Fleet Street at a quarter before 6 o/c. It is quite near Red Lion Court. We can afterwards walk to the Royal Society3 together if you like. I hope Mrs Dubois4 will pardon this attempt to bring you back to your bachelor habits. On Wednesday I trust you will allow me the pleasure of paying my respects to her – Till then I shall be dabbling in all sorts of chemical pollution.
Ever Yours | John Tyndall
RI MS JT/1/T/427
à la Luther & Wegner: Lutter & Wegner (f. 1811) is a famous restaurant in Berlin that would have been familiar to du Bois-Reymond.
Anderton’s Hotel: Tyndall often took visitors to dine at Anderton’s Hotel, 164 Fleet Street; proprietor Frank Clemow.
the Royal Society: At the RS meeting on Thursday, 19 April, Henry Moseley read a paper entitled ‘On the Descent of Glaciers’ and the RS presented its response to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade on the subject of marine meteorological observations (Roy. Soc. Proc., 7 (1855–6), pp. 333–61).
Mrs Dubois: Jeannette, née Claude (1833–1911).
Please cite as “Tyndall1067,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on