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Papers of John Tyndall include: Correspondence (JT/1) - c4,300 letters [and 13 typescript volumes] to and from various recipients and on various issues; Journals (JT/2) - the journals of John Tyndall, Louisa Tyndall, Thomas Archer Hirst, Edward Frankland and Lady Claud Hamilton relate to various issues: those of John Tyndall to issues such as railway work, travels, and his general day to day life; those of Louisa Tyndall to personal issues such as the state of John Tyndall's health; the Thomas Archer Hirst journals refer to personal activities and his work; Edward Frankland's journal to his time at Queenwood with John Tyndall and Lady Claud Hamilton's journal is of a personal nature; Notebooks (JT/3) - the notebooks and experimental diaries of John Tyndall refer to his work, experiments and observations. There are notes on glaciers, heat and light experiments, putrefaction, lighthouses, the sky, sound, the Alps, [Michael] Faraday, travels and other miscellaneous notes such as philosophy and other people's experiments. There are also two notebooks relating to the X-Club belonging to John Tyndall. There are two notebooks of Louisa Tyndall and one of Anna Hirst which are of personal and religious substance; Lectures (JT/4) - the volumes of lecture notes consist of notes by John Tyndall for lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) and the London Institution as well as various addresses and speeches for example at St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow and Belfast. The notes refer to lectures on heat, radiant heat, light, magnetism and electricity, sound, the discoveries of [Michael] Faraday, John Tyndall's American tour as well as the apparatus for the lectures; Biographical Material (JT/5) - the biographical material contains notes made and materials collected for biographies of John Tyndall. These include articles, newspaper cuttings, hand written notes, drafts by C N Creasey and A S Eve, written attempts by Louisa Tyndall and other papers with biographical notes such as hand-written copies of Pasteur letters and chronologies. There are two boxes of Thomas Archer Hirst material which refers to his journals and contain biographical notes; Press Related Material (JT/6) - Press related material includes written articles and letters for the Times and Saturday Review, newspaper cuttings relating to John Tyndall and his works and activities for example of lighthouses, his American tour, as well as obituaries and miscellaneous pieces on religion and scientific affairs; Publications - Articles (JT/7) - the publications and articles consist of various off prints and copies of publications and articles by John Tyndall and others. Many were presented to John Tyndall, some relate to obituaries and have Louisa Tyndall's annotations in them; and Other (JT/8) - Various miscellaneous items consisting of bound volumes of manuscripts relating to issues such as John Tyndall's life, work, poetry written or collected by John Tyndall, valentines and travel notes, portraits, drawings and sketches of John Tyndall. There is also a box of medals of John Tyndall, a folder with an index to correspondence possibly in Louisa Tyndall's hand, a testimonial given to John Tyndall on his marriage to Louisa and various other papers.