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To Thomas Archer Hirst

My dear Tom

I forgot when I expressed my gladness at your coming that I had already engaged to Pinner to Col. Wynne1 on Sunday next – I cannot get off the engagement as Mrs Wynne came here to see me & to her I have passed my word. Du Bois also tells me that Saturday week the lecture will be more important. He enquired cordially after big Tom Hirst this morning. I propose then that you defer your journey for a week.2 What say you?

Yours affectionately | John

Thursday

RI MS JT/1/T/597

1

to Pinner to Col. Wynne: The Wynne family lived at Pinner, in the Borough of Harrow, 12 miles north-west of Charing Cross.

2

defer your journey for a week: Hirst did not postpone his journey for a week but instead attended du Bois-Reymond’s first RI lecture, on 21 April.

Please cite as “Tyndall1072,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall1072