Saturday
My dear Mr Dean,
I picked up your note2 last night at the Athenaeum,3 had it come to the Institution,4 I should have replied to it earlier.
On Monday evening I am fixed. But on Tuesday I am free. On Thursday I am also fixed. So I propose starting from Paddington at 9½ on Tuesday morning and hope to reach Ledbury5 by 2.30.
From Ledbury I see I must start on Thursday at 9.16. All the other trains reach London too late.
Don’t ask anybody. Let me run wild myself over the hills. I shall be a bore to your friends in my present state of dullness.
Yours ever, | John Tyndall.
I hope Mrs Dawes6 will not give me up as a heretic after she has read my chapter on Miracles.7
RI MS JT/1/TYP/1/328
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[23 August 1862]: the date is given since Tyndall returned to London from Switzerland on 16 August, a Saturday, making this Saturday letter fall on the next. Also by relation to letter 1902 in which Tyndall discussed his intentions to visit Dawes and his wife in mid-August after his return.
your note: letter missing; but see letter 1902 in which Tydnall discussed his intentions to visit Dawes and his wife in mid-August.
Athenaeum: see letter 1907, n. 7.
Institution: the RI.
Ledbury: a town in Herefordshire in the west-midlands; with a railway station on the line from Paddington.
Mrs Dawes: Mary Helen Dawes.
my chapter on Miracles: chapter five of Tyndall’s Mountaineering in 1861, titled ‘Reflections’ (pp. 30–40).
Please cite as “Tyndall1922,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on