Royal Institution | 10th. May. 1856.
My dear Tyndall,
I am very glad of your letter1 I was hoping to hear of the end I could not doubt that it would be satisfactory but still wished to know that it was so as it is I think you stand in a good independent position and have been very useful in the great matter, whether it progresses now or has to wait a little. That it must progress is I think certain.
I am better: in fact all the matter is that years do their work and why should they not if they have done it in one way i.e. for my comfort and happiness they ought also to do it in another as for instance in wear and tear. Who would wish for an ever-enduring life in this world, above all if a better hope appears before him?
I hope we shall be home on Thursday night2 and to find you right. I have heard well – very well of your last lecture.3
Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday
Dr. Tyndall
RI MS JT/12/4140
Faraday Correspondence, 5:3140
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your letter: letter 1223.
Thursday night: 15 May 1856.
your last lecture: That was at the RI on 7 May. Tyndall’s own opinion was different. ‘Lectured: felt very poorly: so low that I was careless how the lecture went. This very carelessness however enabled me to drag through pretty well. An experiment or two failed but the lecture as a whole was not a bad one’ (RI MS JT/2/13c/ 841).
Please cite as “Tyndall1224,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on