SOLON ROBINSON, 1845 507 



a result has been achieved that I hope will not only be 

 benificial to the craft, but the whole human family, and 

 that some of that same family will amply remunerate the 

 inventor for the benefits they may receive from him. 



I send you enclosed four imprints of a picture. — Three 

 are from the original stereotype plate, and the other is 

 from a plate made from the original in the new type 

 metal. Will you please to state if there is any and what 

 is the difference — (allude to Nos.) I expect to be in Cin- 

 cinnati in a few weeks, and I shall then make known to 

 you many other things connected with this subject, and 

 get you to put the new metal to the test of such proof as 

 will enable you to speak advisedly upon the subject, and 

 if you then become as well satisfied of the value of the 

 improvement as I am, I am sure that you will lend your 

 influence not only to promote the welfare of society, but 

 to reward a worthy artisan who has spent the best years 

 of his life in accomplishing this improvement. If we find 

 the freight is worthy of such a conveyance, let us load 

 the invention upon the never ceasing, ever running loco- 

 motive of Jabez Doolittle, and send it forth to do much 

 good as it speeds through the wide world. 



July 1, 1845. Solon Robinson. 



New Harmony, Ia. — Rapp — R. Owen — The land about 



THERE, AND A WORD OF THE OLDEN TIME. 

 [Daily Cincinnati Gazette, July 30, 1845] 



On board steamer Orpheus, 

 Below Louisville, July 26, 1845. 

 Messrs. Editors: — As this boat shakes so bad that it 

 shakes all the ideas out of my head in a heap, you must 

 expect them to fall upon the paper in a very confused 

 mass, which you can hardly decipher. 



I wrote you twenty days since from Vincennes. 1 Not- 

 withstanding that the water was so high in the Wabash, 



1 Robinson's letter of July 6, dealing chiefly with the crops in 

 western Indiana, appeared in the Gazette of July 22, 1845. 



