Royal Institution
My dear Heins
I write in great haste. I fear your plan won’t answer.2 I have pledged myself to go down to the Isle of Portland and work my way to Torquay.3 I wish you had come to us and then we might have made some definite arrangement.
Yours ever | John Tyndall
RI MS JT/5/11
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[16 April 1862]: Assuming the letter was written in haste because he was about to embark on his journey, the letter can be dated as 16 April. Tyndall set off from Waterloo station at 11am to travel to the Isle of Portland. See letter 1885.
I fear your plan won’t answer: no record of plan has been found.
Isle of Portland and work my way to Torquay: The Isle of Portland is a small island in the English Channel. Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England.
Please cite as “Tyndall1882,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on