Royal Institution of Great Britain | 3rd Nov. 1864
My dear Admiral
Long may you enjoy the power of wielding the pen in the varied fields of human culture that you have made your own.
Your beautiful volume2 has duly reached me.
Yours ever | John Tyndall
Wellcome, MS. 7777/07
[Robert Fitzroy]: the recipient’s identity suggested by the reference to ‘your beautiful volume’. Robert Fitzroy’s book (see n. 2) was published 1863, the year he was promoted to Vice-Admiral.
Your beautiful volume: probably R. Fitzroy, The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863).
Please cite as “Tyndall2166,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on