Ɛpsilon

To Charles Babbage

My dear Sir

It will give me very great pleasure to join you on Sunday.1 Both Sylvester2 and the mechanical notion conspire to draw me towards you early, so I will come to you at about 1 o’C P.M.’

very sincerely yours | John Tyndall | 1st. Aug. 1856

BL Add MS 37197–48

1

Sunday: 3 August 1856. In his Journal Tyndall referred to visiting Babbage to discuss mechanical rotation (RI MS JT/2/13c/864).

2

Sylvester: see letter 1088, n.1.

Please cite as “Tyndall1265,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall1265