My dear Sir
Your note2 reached me last night at Chamouni:3 and about an hour ago I reached Geneva.4 It is late and I am loth to intrude upon you, otherwise I would call. I must start tomorrow morning very early for London, to attend an examination of military candidates.5 Had I been aware of your being at home I might have arranged to come a day earlier and spent that day in Geneva. But this I am sorry to say is now impossible.
Ever Yours | John Tyndall | Hotel de la Couronne6 | Thursday 7 oC. P.M.
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[16 September]: the month and day are given by Tyndall’s reference to needing to head toward London for a military examination on 21 September (see n. 5). The Thursday before that date was 16 September.
Your note: letter missing. See also letters 1531 and 1534.
Chamouni: see letter 1353, n. 9.
Geneva: see letter 1293, n. 3.
examination of military candidates: beginning on 21 September 1858 at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Tyndall conducted exams in the Experimental Sciences. See Examination Papers used at the Examinations for Direct Commissions, in September, 1858. (London: Harrison, 1858), pp. 13–6.
Hotel de la Couronne: a hotel in Geneva.
Please cite as “Tyndall1558,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on