10 THE BATH INSTITUTION. 



Much of the year 182 L was spent in correspond- 

 ence with the agents of the Pierrepoint property, 

 and with Lord Manvers himself In the August of 

 that year it was ascertained that his Lordship was 

 quite disposed to enter into an arrangement with us ; 

 and it was understood, nor did the event prove the 

 contrary, that he was also disposed to conduct the 

 business in a spirit of liberality, seeing that there 

 was nothing of private interest in the design, but 

 only the general benefit of the place in which he had 

 inherited so valuable a property. 



In all these negociations the friends of the Insti- 

 tution were greatly indebted to the tact and skill 

 and business power of Mr. Elwin, without whom a 

 negociation not without its difficulties would hardly 

 have been brought to a successful issue. And if in 

 the far distant land to which he has removed this 

 page should ever fall under his notice, let him see 

 that there are those still living in England who 

 retain grateful remembrance of the zeal and energy 

 which he then, and ever after, manifested in favour 

 of this important public object. 



Dr. Barlow now set himself to arrange another 

 financial scheme on the basis of not having a capital 

 to be expended in a building, but an annual income 

 to meet an annual rent and the ordinary expense of 

 such an establishment. It was now proposed that 



