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to compare them) are still managed (owing to the exercise, of the 

 service and the division of labor) with an ease and siinplicity quite ^ 

 incomprehensible to an. American, who knows from experience hofr 

 .difficult it is to keep a household of half a dozen domestics together, 

 even in the older parts of the Union. Here, there are sixty ser- 

 vants, and I have been in houses an England where there are above 

 a hundred, and yet all moving with the quiet precision of a chrono- 

 meter. There are few people in England, I think, who seem in- 

 clined to say amen, to the doctrine that 



" Man wants but little here below." 



I would however be quite willing to subscribe to it, so far as re-' 

 gards one's domestic establishment in America, if, alas \ we could 

 have "that little" — good! 



I must close my letter here, with a promise to* give you some 

 account of Chatsworth in my next, which stands, in some respects, 

 at the head of all English places. ^ 



