59 Montague Square | Thursday night.
My dear Mr Tyndall,
Will you dine with us on Monday next at 7? I return the Deutsche Liebe2 with many thanks: it has really interested me and it contains some passages that seem to me beautiful both in feeling and expression ‘Hilf den Menschen, wo du kannst, liebe sie und danke Gott das du ein solches Menschen Herz wie das ihrige auf Erden gesehen, gekannt, geliebt, und verloren hast.’3 is one of these.
We go to St. Julians4 on the 24th for a few days.
Believe me my dear Mr Tyndall | Most truly Yours | Juliet Pollock.
Frederick’s5 regards to you. He is reading Wilhelm Meister!!6 Carlyle’s doing into English.7
RI MS JT/1/TYP/6/1904
LT Typescript Only
[17 December 1857]: the date is given by the reference to Deutsche Liebe, Wilhelm Meister, and the invitation to dinner. For Tyndall’s reply the following day see letter 1471, dated Friday 18 December 1857.
Deutsche Liebe: see letter 1457, n. 1.
‘Hilf den Menschen, wo du kannst, liebe sie und danke Gott das du ein solches Menschen Herz wie das ihrige auf Erden gesehen, gekannt, geliebt, und verloren hast’: F. M. Müller, Deutsche Liebe: Aus den Papieren eines Fremdlings (Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1857), p. 174. The translation is, ‘Help your fellow-men wherever you have the opportunity; love them, and thank God that it has been your lot on earth to see, to know, to love—and to lose such a human heart as hers’. See F. M. Müller, German Love: From the Papers of an Alien, trans. S. Winkworth (London: Chapman and Hall, 1858), pp. 151–2.
St. Julians: the Herries family home in the town of Sevenoaks in Kent, England, southeast of London.
Frederick’s: William Frederick Pollock. Although both father and son went by ‘Frederick’, in his reply to Juliet (letter 1471), Tyndall understood her to have been referring to her husband, William Frederick Pollock.
Wilhelm Meister: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, the second novel of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1795–6.
Carlyle’s doing into English: J. W. von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship: A Novel from the German of Goethe, 3 vols, trans. T. Carlyle (London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1824).
Please cite as “Tyndall1470,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on