Dear Tyndall.
Good bye, I embark for China tomorrow, I am so sorry to miss you.
RI MS JT/2/13c/1065
RI MS JT/2/9/314
[5 April 1858]: in his journal for 5 April 1858, Tyndall wrote, ‘a card from Colonel Wynne bearing the following to me most sorrowful inscription “Dear Tyndall” Good bye, I embark for China tomorrow, I am so sorry to miss you”. It smote my heart like the tidings of the death of a dear friend’ (Journal, JT/2/13c/1065).
Please cite as “Tyndall1504,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on