Royal Institution | Monday m[ornin]g
My dear Hector.
Would you make an addition to your kindness of looking up for me the works of Tyndale,2 by looking up some photographer who will either reproduce that stereoscopic miniature of yourself, or take one as nearly equal to it as his art or the expression of your countenance in London will admit of. I would undertake this labour myself were I not so held by my experiments.
Fill your soul with a good thought, let it irradiate your features, and then let the photographer do his work—I do not at all object to that dash of sorrow which mingles with the general expression of the face.
Yours | John
I must read the “Martyr”3 through and through. I must pierce him and fuse him, reduce him to his component atoms and deduce his actions from their very spring—What I have read interests me amazingly by the reflected light which it throws upon the writer.
RI MS JT/1/T/1473
RI MS JT/1/TYP/5/1625
[5 November 1860]: LT dated this letter 25 July 1860. Tyndale was in London at this time, but 25 July was a Wednesday. It is more likely that this letter dates to early November, around the time of Tyndale’s letter of 2 November (letter 1737), when Tyndale was also in London, and it may be a response to that letter.
the works of Tyndale: see letter 1737.
the “Martyr”: William Tyndale. See letter 1737.
Please cite as “Tyndall1740,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on