Replied as follows:—3
Dear Sir
Your name and Institute4 have long been household words with me, and the thoughts which I associate with both enhance the gratification which your invitation would in any case have given me.
It would be both an honor and a pleasure to me to lecture before the Lowell Institute, and it is a source of regret to me that my studies at present prevent me from closing with your offer.5 I am however committed to a line of research which claims all my attention, and I could not, without seriously invading my duty towards this investigation undertake to lecture in America next year.
With much esteem | I am dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | John Tyndall
John Amory Lowell Esq[ui]r[e] | &c &c &c
RI MS JT/2/10/301
John Amory Lowell: see letter 2160, n. 1.
[November 1864]: the month and year are given by relation to letter 2160 from America (dated 25 October 1864), of which this is a reply.
Replied as follows: this transcription taken from Tyndall’s record of this correspondence.
Institute: see letter 2160, n. 4.
prevent me from closing with your offer: see letter 2160, n. 3.
Please cite as “Tyndall2188,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on