MEMOIR OF DANIEL TRXADWELL. 



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the earth in our whole continent. You know the story of the Engli h lord saying that "th 



rich citizen might build a palace, but, damn him, he could not build the old tiv. " They ma 



say of us, that we cannot make the old churches. The truth is, the* is no town in England 



of any antiquity that has not churches that Boston lias nothin to compare with. 1 i\o not 



know that Bristol, for example, is remarkable for churches, and yet it ho s man fine buildings 



of that kind than can be found in the United States. 



I went to De Ville's a few days ago to see his collection of casta of heads, of wluch lie 

 has between two and three thousand. He is in the practice of examining heads to tell th- 

 characters of those who wear them for a fee, and I even put mine under Ins hands. He wroto 

 out a character and gave the relative size of the organs. This he docs by numbers g ing li in 

 one to seven. He gave me no number lower than two, ami what of all the onrans in mv head 



do you suppose is so puny and behind-hand ? 



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vanity, I think the better of phrenology for this hit. Indeed, I always knew that I bad not 



a sufficiently high opinion of myself. Tell the Doctor that his organ of self-esteem will proliabljr 

 be found not more than one in Mr. De Ville's scale, win r may be said * »f it at home. 



May 19. — I have just returned from Woolwich, where 1 have spent a very pleasant day 

 with Professor Barlow, of the Royal Military Academy. I went down to the re] tit ion of 

 some experiments he has been making on t he si length of iron. 1 met at his bouse, where 

 I dined, two or three other engineers. On my return, found your let t r of April 16th. 1 am 

 obliged to you for looking to see how things go on at the Mill-dam, although I do not belli ve 

 you will be able to know much about it. Yet I like to hear of it, for at th<- si b( oi the 

 name of the Gypsey I can hear the humming of the wh Is. England is in a very prosperous 

 condition at this moment, with the exception of the agricultural interests. The manufaetui • 

 of every kind are in good employment, and I am told several large cotton-mills are building 

 at Manchester. 



Societies are as much in operation here for charitable and moral purposi - as they are in 

 America, and I have no doubt but they produce good results. I am certain that there is 

 less vice in London now than there was when I was here fifteen years a< >. Bcgiring is rare, 

 and the practice of crime in the streets is by no means so common as formerly. This is to be 

 attributed partly to societies, partly to the improvement in the police, and more than i ither of 

 these, perhaps, to the cessation of war and the partial relief of the lower orders from its 

 burdens. Whatever the cause, the morals of the people have improved in everything except 



the practice of temperance. 



Ever faithfully yours, 



Daniel The a dwell. 



To Dr. John Ware. 



Ma NrBi rr.n. Juno 2, 1835. 



My de'ar Doctor, — I think you will agree with rac that the most pleasant letters are tin te 

 which concern some of the prominent men amongst whom the writer may be placed, or of whom 

 he may be in a condition to collect incidents. If the relations are of a scandalous character, 

 or tend to bring the mighty down to our own level the interest is ex- idingly mer d. 

 Letters relating to the mere people, those atoms of mortality of which the substance called 

 mankind is formed, excite few sympathies, unless we can fix upon some great atom called a 



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