Monday Feb 17–63 | 43 Markham Sq[ua]re | SW
Dear Dr Tyndall
Many thanks for y[ou]r kindness. I found y[ou]r Admission2 on Tuesday at the R.I. & on Saturday (by way of Valentine3) I rec[eive]d an official card of permission; but please try to realise the aggravating crossness of human things—I took ill last week with what the Dr called a feverish cold & I have been strictly shut up in the house ever since—I was on my way to see Mrs Huxley4 when I received the order to go back home I begged to come to the lecture this morning but he w[oul]d not hear of it—but being your admirer he sympathised with the disappointment w[hic]h was something. He promised I shall be out on Wednesday but I don’t feel very like it at this moment still you know that in homeopathy we have no after purgatory from the remedies but are well altogether.
If you sh[oul]d see Mrs Huxley will you give her my love & tell her I am still a prisoner—I hope she got a short note I wrote to explain my not keeping my engagement.
I hope dear Dr Tyndall you keep well, please do, for it makes so many people sorry when you don’t!
Y[ou]rs truly | G. E. Jewsbury
Mr John Stores Smith5 requested me to recall him to the kind remembrance of y[ou]r self & of Mr Hirst—
RI MS JT/1/J/29
RI MS JT/1/TYP/2/656
[16]: although this letter is dated 17 February, it is more likely that it was written on the 16 February, a Monday. Tyndall’s School of Mines lectures started on Monday, 16 February.
Y[ou]r Admission: Tyndall had sent Jewsbury a card of admission to his School of Mines lecture, which was on the evening of 16 February.
by way of Valentine: the ‘official card of permission’ clearly arrived on 14 February.
Mrs Huxley: Henrietta Huxley.
John Stores Smith: John Stores Smith (1828–1892), an English writer and managing director of the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company neat Chesterfield, Derbyshire. An acquaintance of Thomas Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë, he authored Barnard: A Modern Romance (1846), Mirabeau: A Life History (1848), and Social Aspects (1850) (C. Alexander and M. Smith (eds), The Oxford Companion to the Brontës: Anniversary Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 476).
Please cite as “Tyndall1974,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on