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From Walter Pollock   xvii Sep: mdcccLvii

My dear Mr Tyndall,

I can write, you see;1 I have got on well at, the riding school and I can trot—so I am not a little dot.

I am yours affectionately | the little demon.2 | Please answer. | W.H.P.

Tunbridge Wells3 | xvij Sep: mdcccLvij.

RI MS JT/1/TYP/6/1917

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1

I can write, you see: a response to a remark Tyndall made in a letter to Walter’s mother Juliet; see letter 1339.

2

the little demon: Tyndall had climbed the Col du Géant with Edouard Balmat, whom he mentioned in letters 1419 and 1420, referring to him as ‘my little demon’ in 1420.

3

Tunbridge Wells: see letter 1423, n. 1.

Please cite as “Tyndall1437,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall1437