My dear Huxley,
The thing seems very feasible in my eyes,2 and I think I could promise to perform my share of the business. Sound your men and let us have a meeting about it.
I think it may become a very important agency and exercise a salutary influence in this quackridden country.
I was at Lord Ashburton’s3 last night and had some talk about you and Hooker. He wishes to know you both very much. He is a fine earnest fellow and you will like him. I wish he was a member of the Phil. Club.4
I sat beside Carlyle at dinner. He appeared to be in choice trim, and we talked most congenially together. Of Buckle he says ‘He’s a weak watery unfruitful creature out of whom no good can come’!
Ever Yours | John Tyndall.
Kindest regards to Mrs Huxley.5 I will soon call to see her if permitted.
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[21 April 1858]: the date is given by relation to Tyndall’s journal entry of 20 April 1858: ‘I know not what I did during the day: dined at Lord Ashburton’s’ (Journal, JT/2/13c/1071).
The thing seems very feasible in my eyes: see letter 1509.
Lord Ashburton’s: see letter 1510, n. 4.
Phil. Club: see letter 1299, n. 7.
Mrs Huxley: Henrietta Huxley.
Please cite as “Tyndall1511,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on