Brighton | 9 Dec 1857
My dear Tyndall,
I cannot resist the pleasure of saying I have very much enjoyed your paper.1 Every part has given me delight. It goes on from point to point beautifully. You will find many pencil marks, for I made them as I read. I let them stand, for though many of them receive their answer as the story proceeds, yet they shew how the wording impresses a mind fresh to the subject, and perhaps here and there you may like to alter it slightly, if you wish the full idea, i.e. not an inaccurate one, to be suggested at first; and yet after all I believe it is not your phrase, but the natural jumping to a conclusion, that affects, or has affected, my pencil.
We return on Friday, when I will return you the paper.
Ever truly yours | M. Faraday
RI MS JT/1/TYP/12/4144
Faraday Correspondence, 5:3363
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your paper: most likely a draft of the paper Tyndall would read before the RS on 17 December. Published as J. Tyndall, ‘On Some Physical Properties of Ice’, Phil. Trans., 148 (1858), pp. 211–29.
Please cite as “Tyndall1462,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on