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" Let me add that the Patent Office has, it is believed, become 

 more auxiliary to that parent branch of Industry so deeply interesting 

 to all nations, viz: Agriculture, by a- collection and distribution of 

 the most important seeds of the world. 



In this undertaking much reciprocal advantage can be derived 

 by national exchanges. 



" Accept the assurance of my highest respect and best wishes. 



(Signed) HENRY L. ELLSWORTH. 



To A. Vattemare, Esq., now in Washington City." 



From that moment I took no rest until I had found out a scheme 

 to bring this plan to maturity, and now I may say that I have suc- 

 ceeded beyond my expectations. Not only we may have an Ameri- 

 can exhibition in Paris, but this exhibition will be made at the 

 expense and under the patronage of the French Government, as we 

 may rely on the official promises made to me by His Excellency the 

 Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, in a letter, of which the 

 following is an extract: 



"In regard to these models and specimens, you express a wish 

 that on their arrival in Paris they should be exhibited in some proper 

 place, and should thus receive all desirable publicity. If, as I hope 

 will be the case, you succeed in making a complete collection of 

 the principal products of American Industry, I will willingly make 

 a public exhibition of them, and you may make use of this pledge in 

 applying for donations. Not only that, if I understand well, the 

 Minister would be disposed to take this opportunity of proposing to 

 the Chamber, the creation in Paris of a great and splendid establish- 

 ment, which would be called the Museum of the Industrious of the 

 two hemispheres — an establishment which would not only be illus- 

 trative as well of the powers of nature as of the state of perfection 

 to which the productions of the human mind have arrived, or are 

 tending to, in every quarter of the globe. But a kind of Patent 

 Office where the creations of Industry, the achievements of Intellect, 

 of the inventive faculties, may be at once and always assigned to 

 their true origin, and always verified without doubt or difficulty." 



I therefore invite all those who feel disposed to cooperate with 

 me in the accomplishment of this great enterprise, to meet together 

 as soon as possible, for the purpose of taking the necessary measures 

 to carry it into execution. 



Very respectfully your obt. servant, 



(Signed) A. VATTEMARE. 



