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downstairs carrying my boots in my hand, gently opened 

 the door, and was off to the fields and meadows. I 

 walked a good deal, went to the seashore, saw a Hare, 

 and returned to breakfast, after which and many invi" 

 tations to make my kind hosts frequent visits, I was 

 driven back to town, and went immediately to the In- 

 stitution, where I met Dr. Traill 1 and many other per- 

 sons of distinction. Several gentlemen attached to the 

 Institution, wished me to be remunerated for exhibiting 

 my pictures, but though I am poor enough, God knows, 

 I do not think I should do that, as the room has been 

 given to me gratis. Four hundred and thirteen persons 

 were admitted to see my drawings. 



August 2. I put up this day two hundred and twenty- 

 five of my drawings ; the coup d'ceil was not bad, and the 

 room was crowded. Old Mr. Roscoe did me the honor 

 to present me to Mr. Jean Sismondi, 2 of Geneva. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Rathbone had gone to their country home, 

 " Green Bank," but I sent a note telling them how many 

 pictures I had added to the first day's exhibition. I have 

 decided to collect what letters I can for London, and go 

 there as soon as possible. I was introduced to Mr. Booth 

 of Manchester, who promised me whatever aid he could 

 in that city. After a call at Mr. Roscoe's, I went, with a 

 gentleman from Charleston, S. C., to the theatre, as I was 

 anxious to see the renowned Miss Foote. Miss Foote has 

 been pretty, nay, handsome, nay, beautiful, but she has 

 been. The play was good, the playhouse bad, and the 

 audience numerous and fashionable. 



August 4- I had no time to write yesterday; my morn- 

 ing was spent at the Institution, the room was again 

 crowded, I was wearied with bowing to the many to 



1 Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D., Scottish naturalist, born in Orkney, 

 1781 ; edited the eighth edition of the " Enclyclopaedia Britannica," was asso- 

 ciated with the Royal Institute at Liverpool ; he died 1862. 



2 The Swiss historian, born at Geneva, 1773, died 1842. 



