DEAR TYNDALL,
I have great pleasure in informing you that you were last night unanimously elected to the new Vice Presidentship of the Alpine Club. The Committee have long been desirous of including you among their number, and have, on more than one occasion, been prevented from requesting you to allow yourself to be put in nomination, only by feeling that your engagements were such as must prevent you from attending the meetings, while the numbers of the Committee and officers were not sufficiently large to allow of any absent members. This difficulty has at last been met by the creation of a new Vice Presidentship for the express purpose of connecting our more distinguished members more closely with the governing body of the Club than has hitherto been possible. And you will I hope understand that though nothing could give us greater pleasure than to see you at the Committee meetings (for which you will receive due notice) yet that you are not to be considered as being under any obligation whatever to take any more active part in the Club affairs than your own convenience may suggest.2
I am, | Very truly yours, | A. P. WHATELY
Life and Work, pp. 388–9
Please cite as “Tyndall1836,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on