MEMOIR OF DANIEL TREADWELL. 383 



To Hon. Josiaii Quixcy, President of Harvard University. 



Boston, Jauuary 10, 1835. 

 Sir, — Having had the honor of being chosen to the phxcc of Rumford Professor at 

 Cambridge, and being about to enibaric for England for the purpose of obtaining infoi-mation 

 on the present state of the arts, and for other purposes connected with the Professorship, I 

 have thought that it would not be improper to state in writing the terras on which I under- 

 stand myself to have accepted the Professorship, and on which I shall prepare to undertake the 

 execution of its duties. First, the services required of me will be the delivery of about forty 

 lectures annually on the philosophy of the arts, particularly those which are of practical im- 

 portance in the business of life. These lectures shall be given, two or more a week, at such 

 part of the academic year as the Corporation shall appoint. Second, to enable mc to illustrate 

 the lectures by direct experiments, the Corporation shall expend such sum as may ))e by thcni 

 deemed necessary, which will probably be about five thousand dollars from the Rumford Fund 

 in procuring an apparatus and collection of models of machinery. Such portion of the appara- 

 tus and models as can be advantageously procured in England shall be purchased there by 

 me on account of the corporation. Third, my duties and salary shall commence on my return 

 from England, and the first course of lectures shall be given as soon after my return as the 

 apparatus can be completed. Fourth, the salary shall be eight hundred dollars a year, and 

 the remainder of the yearly income of the foundation shall be expended in additions to the 

 apparatus, the Corporation being at the expense of keeping the apparatus always in repair. 

 Fifth, my residence shall be at Cambridge ; but as the salary is fixed at a sum less than that 

 given to Professors whose whole time is required in instruction, it is understood that I shall 

 have leave of absence when not engaged in lecturing, for the purpose of attending to engineer- 

 ing, or any branch of industry the pursuit of which will enable me to render my lectures more 

 immediately practical and instructive. I do not state the above as absolute conditions, in- 

 tended to bind the Corporation in a literal fulfilment of them, but as a summary of my duties, 

 and of the terms on which they are to be performed. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Daniel Teeadwell. 



He sailed on the 2cl of March, 1835, from New York for England, landed at 

 Dartmoutli on the 23d of the same month, and went immediately to London. 

 Althongli lie devoted himself with his usual energy to the visiting of such institu- 

 tions as had for their object the advancement of the useful arts, and to studying 

 carefully such practical operations in manufactures as would illustrate the subjects 

 connected with his new duties, his letters to his friends at home show that he was 

 an observer of the people and the efPect of their institutions. The following letters 

 and extracts from his Journal give us his impressions on this visit. 



To Dr. John "Ware. 



London, April 1, 1835. 

 My dear Doctor, — You will have learned by my letter to Adeline the course of things with 

 me during my voyage and journey to this immense depot of the best and worst, the richest and 



