Royal Institution | 16 May 1860
My dear Tyndall,
Just a line to say I am very sorry you grumble at your head. I was in hopes the weather and country had refreshed you as it has done me. Thomson is here at work for Friday1 and inquiring earnestly after you. De la Rive is busy diplomatically.2 Barry is gone from us;3 it strikes me the more because I have had occasion to be at the houses of parliament lately and it was only on Saturday week we had a long conversation at the Royal Academy Dinner. Health and long life to you is the sincere wish of your friend
RI MS JT/1/TYP/12/4151
Faraday Correspondence 5: 3781
Thomson is here at work for Friday: William Thomson gave the Friday Evening Discourse of 18 May 1860 on ‘Atmospheric Electricity’, Roy. Soc. Proc., 3 (1862), pp. 262, 277–90.
De la Rive is busy diplomatically: Following the annexation of Savoy by France, De la Rive was appointed to be a Swiss special ambassador to England. (Faraday Correspondence 5: 3781; The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 7 (1910) p. 944).
Barry is gone from us: the architect Charles Barry (1795–1860) died 12 May 1860.
Please cite as “Tyndall1701,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on