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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. TrailP 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. 



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

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

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

 to present me to Mr. Jean Sismondi,^ 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 



* 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. 



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



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