Highgate | 5 Sep 1857
My dear Tyndall,
I have hesitated in writing to you to acknowledge yours,1 for I thought you were coming home quickly—at least so I understood Anderson; but I hope you will enjoy the quiet country,2 for I doubt whether Switzerland could be called quiet to you, occupied as you were. We shall be very glad to see you in due time, and then you and I will talk of the lectures and other things which you refer to. I do not feel as if my hand could write much distinctly, and indeed I doubt whether this will find you in Hampshire3; but wherever and ever yours
Very truly | M. Faraday
RI MS JT/1/TYP/12/4143
Faraday Correspondence, 5:3333
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to acknowledge yours: possibly letter 1419 of 15 August 1857.
enjoy the quiet country: before settling back in London after traveling in the Alps, Tyndall was at Queenwood from 26 August to 9 September, then went to Highgate to see Faraday on 11 September, and to the Pollocks in Tunbridge Wells on 12 September. He returned to London on 14 September (Journal, JT/2/13c/1032–3).
Hampshire: see letter 1424, n. 2.
Please cite as “Tyndall1431,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on