My dear Mr. Tyndall
I write to tell you with what true, heartfelt satisfaction I heard from Sir Charles Hamilton2 of the last resolution passed at the R.I. concerning you.3 Sir Charles came at once (with his usual benevolence) to tell it to me knowing the pleasure that I should derive from the intelligence. —
I trust that you are well and happy, and that I shall see you soon to shake hands with you, and tell you better than I can write it, how glad I must always be to hear of every augmentation to your welfare.
—If you want an interesting, clever, admirably written novel; get Adam Bede.4 —
Yours most truly | Juliet Pollock
59 Montague Squ[are]e W. | Ash Wednesday —59/
RI MS JT/1/P/183
RI MS JT/1/TYP/6/1953
[9 March] 1859: The letter is signed Ash Wednesday ‘59, which fell on 9 March.
Charles Hamilton: Sir Charles Hamilton was a Manager of the RI.
the last resolution passed at the R.I. concerning you: The Managers of the RI decided to increase Tyndall’s salary to £300 per annum. This was proposed by Jones and seconded by Webster (RI Manager’s Minutes, p. 266, 7 March 1859). See also letters 1597, 1602, and 1649.
Adam Bede: a novel written by Mary Anne Evans (1819–80) under the pen-name George Eliot.
Please cite as “Tyndall1596,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on