Folkestone2 | Sep. 24th. 1858
My dear Dr Tyndal3
Thank you very much for the pretty crochet-needle you sent me. I like it so very much. It will be very useful. Edy4 and Baby5 both like their things very much. Edy
does worsted6 work so it holds her needles and is very useful as well as pretty.
Papa7 told us you had a great many adventures in the mountains; I hope you will tell us about them when we see you in London. It was very kind of you to think of us all so far off. Master Archie8 would if he had any manners at all write you a letter of thanks but he has none as yet so mean time I send his thanks for him.
With very many more from | Your’s affectionately and very much obliged | Millicent M. Bence Jones.
RI MS JT/1/J/119
RI MS JT/1/TYP/3/748
Millicent Bence Jones: Millicent Mary Bence Jones (1843–1933), eldest child of Henry and Millicent Bence Jones.
Folkestone: see letter 1447, n. 3.
Tyndal: misspelled in the original letter.
Edy: Edith Mary Bence Jones (1853–1919), daughter of Henry Bence Jones and his wife Millicent (née Acheson, 1817–87). She would marry Edward John Stapleton. See ‘Deaths’, Times, 23 July 1919, p. 1.
Baby: Archibald Bence Jones (1856–1937), son of Henry and Millicent Bence Jones. See ‘Deaths’, Times, 25 February 1937, p.1.
worsted work: embroidery done with worsted yarn on canvas (OED).
Papa: Henry Bence Jones.
Master Archie: see n. 5.
Please cite as “Tyndall1559,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on