10th. April 1863
My Dear Mons. l’Abbé.
I was obliged to quit London to get a little rest & for the last 10 days I have been staying in the Isle of Wight. I wrote to Messrs. Longman1 regarding the reproduction of my book:2 they reply to me3 in the following words:—“You may inform your Paris correspondent that we shall sell a set of the woodcuts to your work on heat for £25 to be paid for in cash on delivery of the casts to his agent in London.”
With regard to the book itself I think no difficulty w[oul]d. stand in the way of an arrangement. I think I could induce Mr. Longman to agree to any reasonable arrangement. My idea is that you should pay nothing for the book until after your profits had reached a certain sum—say £50. After that you would perhaps be willing to allow the publisher a share in the profits.
If any other proposition should appear to you more reasonable pray let me know. I shall do what I can to arrange matters.
Many thanks for the information you have given me regarding M. Séguin.4 I shall return to London on Saturday next, and shall be glad to hear from you.
Yours most truly | John Tyndall
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Stabi) Slg Darmstaedter 1855 Tyndall Be. 1-58, 40-1
I wrote to Messrs. Longman: letter missing; see letter 1992, n. 4.
reproduction of my book: Tyndall’s Heat as a Mode of Motion (published in March 1863) appeared in French as J. Tyndall, La chaleur considérée come un mode de mouvement, trans. F. Moigno (Paris: Étienne Giraud, 1864).
they reply to me: letter missing.
M. Séguin: see letter 1990.
Please cite as “Tyndall1996,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on