Wednesday
My dear Tom.
I am at length able to say that I start from here on Friday morning, and reach Paris at 11.55 on the same day. I go by Dieppe.2
I will take with me the books & tobacco.
I will put up at the Hotel Vivienne,3 and spend Saturday with you. On Sunday I proceed to Strasburg.4
Yours affectionately | John Tyndall
RI MS JT/1/T/645
RI MS JT/1/HTYP/512
[14 July 1858]: the date is given by the addition of ‘July 14. 1858’ on the letter, presumably written by Hirst.
Dieppe: a channel port in the Normandy region of France and popular entry point by ferry from Britain.
Hotel Vivienne: a hotel in Paris, France.
Strasburg: Strasbourg, a city in eastern France. Travelers to Switzerland from Paris would take a railway to Strasbourg, and then another railway from Strasbourg south to Basel in Switzerland.
Please cite as “Tyndall1533,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on