London | 4 June 1864
My dear Tyndall
I have just returned to town and have to thank you very much for your kind present to Frank.1 Coming from you it will be an additional inducement to him to study the books you send him.
I should like very much to hear your lecture.2 Whilst I am in town could you give me tickets for myself and a friend, provided the request is not unusual. I do not call upon you because I know your time is so much occupied, but I will see you before I go.
I shall be very much gratified by being mentioned in your autobiography,3 I can claim the small merit of having had some discernment, I was first attracted by your Gentleman-like address and I then perceived that I had no ordinary man to deal with, but I never anticipated that the Civil assistant. was so completely to give his old master4 the go by—farewell.
I am most truly yours | Geo Wynne
RI MS JT/1/W/96
RI MS JT/1/TYP/5/1861
Frank: Frank George Wynne.
your lecture: see letter 2091, n. 7.
your autobiography: this is perhaps the first indication of Tyndall’s intent to write an autobiography. He tried to write it later with his wife Louisa, but their efforts were never completed.
his old master: a reference to Tyndall having worked under Wynne as a surveying assistant in the Irish Ordnance Survey.
Please cite as “Tyndall2102,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on