June 9, 60.
My dear John,
I lose no time in writing to offer you my best thanks for your kind and most welcome present,2 received this morning, and which I shall highly value, as the gift of one in whose welfare I have felt such warm interest for so many years.
I trust your late excursion to this country3 has been attended with benefit to your health, though your stay was so short, still your native air would enliven and refresh you. I shall anxiously look for a few lines from the Alps, which I truly hope you may reach and leave in perfect safety.
And now, my dear John, accept the kindest and best | wishes of your sincere friend | E.D. Steuart
RI MS JT/1/TYP/10/3341
LT Typescript Only
[9 June 1860]: Only the typescript exists, and the date may have been inferred and added by LT. Tyndall was in Ireland from 14–26 June 1860, where Elizabeth Steuart lived, so if the typescript is correct in giving 1860 as the year, the letter may have been written a few weeks later. Tyndall left for the Alps on 2 August 1860.
your kind and most welcome present: unidentified.
your late excursion to this country: see n. 1.
Please cite as “Tyndall1712,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on