MEMOIR OF DANIEL TREADWELL. 



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caprices that may take the courts. The trial will be by Judge Nelson, of New York, who has 

 the reputation of an able man. Should I fail in this suit, I shall at least establish full proof 

 to the world that all the most important improvements in cannon that have been made for the 

 last twenty-five years have been derived from me, and most of them reduced to practice by me. 



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I wish you, immediately on receipt of it, to return an answer, enclosing the direction to your 

 street and number. I wish you to do this, as I have something to send you by mail, and it 

 will be important to you that it should not miscarry. I will enclose it as soon as I receive an 

 answer to this, and your address. 



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iNIEL 



P. S. Let me 



To Br. William Sweetser. 



Cambridge, April 15, 18(55. 



My dear old Friend, — You 



the account which I received of you from my friend and neighbor, Mr. Charles Folsom. From 



the correspondence between Mr 



Mrs. Sweetser, likewise, and from Miss 



Langdon, I have received constant accounts of your recovered health. This has been a very 

 great source of satisfaction to me, for I can say, with the utmost truth, that there is no person 

 left in the wide world whose welfare I so sincerely desire as yours. I will not say a word 

 about my neglect in not writing to you, as you know my idiosyncrasy about mere friendly 

 correspondence and must lay my conduct to that fault. The world has gone on with me 

 during the past winter much in the old way. My health has been uncertain, sometimes quite 

 comfortable, sometimes feeble, but without any particular disease, except the weight of years, 

 which has told upon me very much since I last saw you. I feel myself much alone in the 



world. 



War 



relief I used to find in the 



company of old T. I see more of Mr. Folsom than anybody else, as he lives near me, and 

 usually calls in two or three times a week. But my dear old fellow, if I only had you within 

 speaking distance, to go over the old memories with, and discuss the questions and humbugs 

 of the day with, it would be worth all else that is left to me. My mind remains very active, 

 and although I avoid putting it to very laborious and long-continued work, yet I find myself 

 capable of pursuing my old subjects of investigation with satisfaction, and as I think with 



vigor. 



Accept Mrs. Treadwell's best remembrance and love to Mrs. Sweetser, and from me 



Mrs. Sweetser all kind regards. 



Ever truly yours, 



Daniel Treadwell. 



At the annual meeting of the Academy, in May, 1865, when Professor Treadwell 

 declined a re-election to the Vice-Presidency, to which he had been annually chosen 

 since 1852, Professor Jeffries Wyman moved the following vote, which was unani- 

 mously adopted : 



" Voted, That the thanks of the Academy are hereby respectfully tendered to 



Professor Daniel Treadwell, for the constancy with which he has devoted him- 



