59 Montague Square | Nov. 10th 1860
My dear Mr Tyndall
We have lost our friend Mr. Parker.1 It is a great loss & your warm, kind heart will readily conceive how much it pains us. —he was such a zealous friend and there was an unconventionality about him, not amounting to eccentricity, that was very endearing. —I have written to my boys not to think any more about the charade party. —It was so associated with him that the attempt at pleasure would be too painful. —I believe my sons will sympathise in this feeling—and I will try to amuse them in some other way.
You will be sorry to hear that John2 is too ill to remain in service and that we are looking out for another servant.
Good friends and good servants are more easily lost than replaced—such is life. —You had better dine with us on Saturday the 17th: at ½ past 6,—that we may set off together.3 I have taken a place for Walter.4
Yours most truly | Juliet Pollock
RI MS JT/1/P/170
RI MS JT/1/TYP/6/1971
Mr. Parker: John Parker.
John: unidentified.
that we may set off together: after dinner Tyndall went with Juliet Pollock, Walter (her son) and Miss Creed (a relative, as Juliet’s maiden name was Creed) to the opera Robin Hood (Journal, RI MS JT/2/13c/1191). Robin Hood, an opera in three acts with libretto by John Oxenford and music by George Macfarren, had opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 11 October 1860.
I have taken a place for Walter: Walter Herries Pollock.
Please cite as “Tyndall1744,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on