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From John Douglas Cook1

My dear Tyndall

I am told you have a lot to say about the Matterhorn.2 Pray write every word of it, and then send it to me, like a very good Boy, which you really would be if you would do more for the S.R.3 and

Yours very truly | John D. Cook | Friday Novbr 9/60

RI MS JT/1/C/48

RI MS JT/1/TYP/1/227

1

John Douglas Cook: John Douglas Cook (c. 1808–68). Editor of the Morning Chronicle until its sale in 1854, then founding editor of the Saturday Review.

2

I am told you have a lot to say about the Matterhorn: see letter 1726, n. 13.

3

for the S.R.: for the Saturday Review. There is no article from Tyndall on the Matterhorn, but he did write one on his winter ascent of Snowdon: ‘Snowdon in Winter’, The Saturday Review, (5 January 1861), pp. 11–12.

Please cite as “Tyndall1743,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall1743