444 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Library and ry era This gift he subsequently enlarged to an 
endowment of $300 
er an absence of twent y years, in 1857 Mr. Peabody revisited 
the United States, an honored guest, but with characteristic mod- 
esty declining all public demonstration except one in his native town 
of Danvers. During this visit he laid the foundation of the noble 
endowment bestowed upon his adopted city of Baltimore, by the 
gift of $500,000, which sum he has since enlarged to $1, 000, 000, 
to furnish a free public library, and an Institute for courses of lee- 
mer nae an pan aay 4 of music, and gallery of art. 
ers of public demonstration 
of rapt orders of cotoh tbgod he ey declined, accepting only 
an autograph letter of thanks from the Queen of En gland, accom- 
sues by a miniature portrait of herself, set in diamonds and 
aring on its golden case the inscription, «Presented to — 
Peabody, Esq., the benefactor of the poor of London.” _Thes 
See of noble deeds are deposited in the Peabody Institute : at 
ea 
_In 1866 he again revisited the United States om he might with 
wn hand bestow still more princel During that 
when a boy; $20, o the Massachusetts Historical Society | ; 
$150,000 to found a Professorship and Museum of American Arch- 
ology at Cambri e same sum for a Ma useum of Natural His- 
ary ( 
Ohio; and $15, 000 for a pee at Jone C.; besides the 
crowning donation of $1,500,000 to build up the cause of educa- — 
was increased during his last visit the past summer — 
y an addition of one million of dollars using * mahpee of $2,500,000 
for this most catholic object of popular, educa 
During hi he also gave a liberal aonation to Washing- 
ton University in Virginia, besides tistribuaing, it is said, $1,500,000 
_ among the members of his own family. Mr. Peabody never mar- 
