23 Hans Place | Sloane Street
Dear Tyndall,
Your letter2 has reached me here this morning. I learn from Rendu’s memoir3 together with the other publications you were kind enough to send me to Llwyn Madoc.4 Mind you don’t lose Rendu’s memoir on any account. I am now staying with a friend of ours Miss Marston,5 whose address I have given above. She desires me to say how glad she should be to see you if you would give her the pleasure of your company at dinner either to-morrow (Friday) or Saturday at 6 o’clock. There will be no party besides Mrs Hopkins6 and myself and a Miss Haworth7 who is residing with Miss Marston. You will have time to let us know which day we may expect you. Do come if you can as I should like to have a little talk with you exceedingly. If you cannot come I will write to you again very soon. I stay here till Monday, on my way to Hastings.
Yours truly | W. Hopkins.
RI MS JT/1/TYP/2/632
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[6 December 1860]: probably Thursday 6 December, as Tyndall dined with Hopkins at Miss Marston’s on 8 December (Journal, RI MS/JT/2/13c/1194).
Your letter: letter missing.
Rendu’s memoir: see letter see letter 1619, n. 13.
Llwyn Madoc: the residence of Henry Thomas, where Hopkins stayed until mid-November while recovering from a leg injury. See letters 1731 and 1746.
Miss Marston: Ann Marston (1808–1901), anti-vivisectionist and animal welfare advocate, who conducted Christian missionary work in India. She was interested in mathematics, and frequently attended meetings of the British Association and other scientific societies.
Mrs Hopkins: Caroline Frances Hopkins (1799–1881). He had married Anne Braithwaite in 1818 but she died c. 1821 and he married Caroline Boys in 1827.
Miss Haworth: Miss Haworth (1807–88), spelt Howarth in the magazine article referenced here, seems to have lived with Ann Marston (see n. 5) for fifty-two years, and the two were very close. See ‘Ann Marston’, East and West, Vol. 1, No. 8 (June 1902), pp. 839–44.
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