59 Montague Square | April 27th.
My dear Mr Tyndall,
I have promised to forward the enclosed1 to you. I believe it contains an invention for making paper and that the inventor is very anxious to have your opinion upon it. I am not personally acquainted with Mr Schachner2 and it is for the sake of my friend Mrs Brookfield3 who is a friend of his, that I venture to trouble you on his behalf.
I was sorry not to see you when you so kindly called the other day, but the death of Mr Herries4 is a very great affliction to me, and on that day I really felt too unwell to see any body.
Mr Herries was my Uncle, but he took the place of a Father to me from the time I was a year old, and I loved and revered him as such.
Little Walter5 begs me to inform you that he has just spent his last sixpence on a box of turks,6 but that he thinks he shall get more sixpences in the course of time
Yours most truly | Juliet Pollock
RI MS JT/1/6/1882
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the enclosed: enclosure missing.
Mr Schachner: not identified; name probably incorrectly transcribed by Louisa.
Mrs Brookfield: possibly Jane Brookfield of Cadogan Place, wife of William Brookfield, a clergyman and school inspector. See also letter 1187.
the death of Mr Herries: The statesman and financier John Charles Herries (b. 1778) who died on 24 April 1855 at Sevenoaks, Kent (Morning Post, 25 April 1855, p. 8). He was Juliet Pollock’s uncle.
Little Walter: Walter Herries Pollock (1850–1926), who later became a novelist, poet and journalist, was the son of Juliet and William Fredrick Pollock.
a box of turks: a box of Turkish delight, a sweetmeat consisting of gelatine boiled, cubed, and dusted with sugar (OED).
Please cite as “Tyndall1079,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on