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From Michael Faraday   11th Sept. 1861

Royal Institution | 11th. Sept. 1861.

My Dear Tyndall

Lest I should not catch you to day I write to thank you for your admirable letter1 (for I have not been able to thank you before), and say how thankful we were for it. I sent it off at once to the Illustrated London News, where it appeared last Saturday.2 I hope you do not disapprove. Shortly after it was gone, I wished it had been sent to the Times; and I don’t know what made me choose the other, except some association, mingling with a wandering memory, cause it. So you have been at Manchester,3 where I durst not go. I conclude you are as well as you can be and that is just as we wish it. We are stopping at Hampton Court now but I hope we shall meet much somewhere soon.

Ever yours | M. Faraday

RI MS JT/1/TYP/12/4152

Faraday Correspondence, 6: 4056

1

your admirable letter: see letter 1804.

2

where it appeared last Saturday: John Tyndall, ‘Ascent of the Weisshorn,’ Illustrated London News, 7 September 1861, pp. 240–1.

3

have been at Manchester: The thirty-first meeting of the BAAS, was held at Manchester, on 4–11 September 1861.

Please cite as “Tyndall1809,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall1809