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large shrubs, looking like a wilderness, and in the middle a 

 little plot of green ground and a knot of flowers. In short, it 

 was multum in parvo with a witness. This is the very house 

 occupied by the late Mr. Joyce." 



To Mr. Johns, when absent from Manchester. 



July 2nd, 1825. 



" Yesterday I dined at Dr. Henry's, meeting Professor 

 Almroth, of Stockholm, and a party, together with his own 

 young family and Miss Bailey. Professor Almroth break- 

 fasted with me this morning. He is well read in Shakespere, 

 Sir Walter Scott, and the German literature, as well as in 

 Shimistry, 



" You will have a new chapel to go to when you come here. 

 The g^reat water hole opposite has now a chapel on it, for 

 Baptists, they say. * * * * I am nearly ready for a 

 jaunt, but whether north or west I do not know till my 

 stick falls." 



We see from these letters that he was accustomed to 

 lecture occasionally in all parts of the country, when invited, 

 and we see also enough to let us judge a little of his temper. 

 They are full of very simple kindly feeling, the very act of 

 writing home so many details betokens a disposition to please, 

 and entirely precludes every accusation of vanity or that 

 absurd appearance of separation from his fellows, which we 

 find so frequently the production of bigotry and of ignorance, 

 but which we too often call by the name of dignity. We find 

 him exceedingly pleased with the attentions of scientific men ; 

 he had, of course, frequent visits from such as came to Man- 

 chester, and foreigners of distinction seem to have pleased 

 him as much as the young members of the family where he 

 resided. At the same time he was tenacious of his opinions, 

 and we find that in describing his conversations with men 

 of science, he generally calls them discussions, and generally 

 on scientific subjects we find him too much standing up for 

 his own rights, as his results appeared to him to be. This 



