CHAPTER XL 



HIS JOURNAL OF TRAVELS: THE GIBBS' CABINET: THE 

 MEDICAL SCHOOL. 



Publication of his Journal of Travels. Reception of the Work. Letter 

 of Chancellor Kent. Letter from Mr. Wilberforce. Accident in the 

 Laboratory. Transfer of Colonel Gibbs's Cabinet to New Haven. 

 Impression made by the new Cabinet. War with Great Britain. The 

 Medical Institution of Yale College: its Origin and Organization. Pro- 

 visions for the Defence of New Haven against the British. Birth of a 

 Son. News of the Conclusion of Peace. Destructive Gale of 1815. 

 Death of President Dwight. Letters of Judge Desaussnre, Professor 

 Cleaveland, and Judge Daggett. Letter from Dr. John Murray. 



IN the year next following his marriage, he gave 

 to the press his "Journal of Travels in England, 

 Holland, and Scotland," which passed through three 

 editions. He had been advised by Dr. Dwight and 

 other friends to publish this work, but the circum- 

 stance which determined hirn to comply with their 

 wish was the unsolicited offer of Mr. Daniel Wads- 

 worth to assume the pecuniary risk of the publica- 

 tion. The manuscript journal had been circulated 

 among his personal friends, and, as narrated above, 

 had found its way into the family of Mr. Wadsworth, 

 and won for the author their respect and regard. 

 Probably no book of European travel, by an Ameri- 

 can, has been so much read or so generally admired. 

 A great many persons derived from it their first dis- 

 tinct impressions of England and English society. 

 Not a few, who still live, preserve a fresh recollection 



