36 autograph dated letters from Tyndall to various correspondents
- Date:
- 1855-1890
- Reference:
- MS.7777/1-34
- Part of:
- Tyndall, John F.R.S. (1820-1893), British physicist
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Signed (except no.10, which is in the third person).
Including nos.18a and 20a.
Correspondents include the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat (no.28) and James Croll (no.8), the latter in reply to a letter from Croll now held at the Royal Institution. No.9 is probably to the Rev. J.E. Kemp, the evidence being in material held at the Royal Institution 9Rev J E Kemp (Tyndall Journal VIIIa p394-5 and Typescript Journal RI MS JT/2/13c p1319).
Publication/Creation
1855-1890
Physical description
36 items
Arrangement
Chronological, with one exception: no.29 has subsequently been dated by Professor Roland Jackson to 1854, and thus its chronological position should actually be before no.1.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts