Queenwood College | Stockbridge | March 20th 1861.
My dear John,
I received your two notes1 in due time. I must confess I felt very much disappointed on reading the statement of your going to Cornwall.2 Of course as you have engaged to go, you must go. How glad I should have been to have seen you here, needs no assurance. It is now nearly a year since I saw you last in this neighbourhood and when shall I see you again? I enclose the desired translation3 and hope it will be to your satisfaction. When writing it I was and am still troubled with a severe headache, so I am afraid the English will not be very elegant.
Do not carry your theory too far or you will loose your ground.* Your friend knows that love has its duties and pains.
A happy journey, dear John, dont walk round cliffs or into deep mines or other attractive places but preserve your neck for your friends.
Good Bye | Ever yours | H. Debus.
*The ground on which your theory holds good is the inherent love and affection of your friend. par example I am in love with you.
RI MS JT/1/D/28
your two notes: letters missing.
your going to Cornwall: Tyndall went on a walking holiday to Devon and Cornwall with Francis Vaughan Hawkins and Francis Galton from 23 March to 2 April (Journal, RI MS JT/2/13c/1205–11). Tyndall’s description contains one of the earliest accounts of sea-cliff climbing in Cornwall.
I enclose the desired translation: enclosure missing.
Please cite as “Tyndall1772,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on