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satin bonnets, gray silk spencers, and white petticoats, as 

 befitted them, being Quakers; also Mr. Heyvvood, the 

 banker, who invited me to dine next Sunday. I spent the 

 evening at the Rev. James I. Taylor's, in company with 

 himself, his wife, and two gentlemen, one a Parisian. I 

 cannot help expressing my surprise that the people of 

 England, generally speaking, are so unacquainted with the 

 customs and localities of our country. The principal con- 

 versation about it always turns to Indians and their ways, 

 as if the land produced nothing else. Almost every lady 

 in England draws in water-colors, many of them extremely 

 well, very much better than I ever will do, yet few of them 

 dare to show their productions. Somehow I do not like 

 Manchester. 



" September 17 , Sunday. I have been thinking over my 

 stay in Liverpool ; surely I can neve* express, much less 

 hope to repay, my indebtedness to my many friends there, 

 especially the Roscoes, the three families of Rathbone, and 

 Dr. Thomas S. Traill. My drawings were exhibited for 

 four weeks without a cent of expense to me, and brought 

 me ;£ioo. I gave to the Institution a large piece, the 

 wild Turkey Cock; to Mrs. Rathbone, Sr., the Otter in a 

 trap, to Mr. Roscoe a Robin, and to many of my other 

 friends some small drawing, as mementos of one who will 

 always cherish their memories. I wrote a long letter to 

 my son John Woodhouse urging him to spend much of 

 his time at drawing from nature only, and to keep every 

 drawing with the date, that he may trace improvement, if 

 any, also to speak French constantly, that he may not for- 

 get a language in which he is now perfect. I have also 

 written to the Governor of New York, his Excellency De 

 Witt Clinton, to whose letters I am indebted for much of 

 my cordial reception here. At two I started for Cler- 

 mont, Mr. Heywood's residence, where I was to dine. 

 The grounds are fine, and on a much larger scale than 

 Green Bank, but the style is wholly different. The 



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