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1825 July 14
J.B. to Bolivar

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Hazlewood

Education. I had formed a plan for conducting
the intellectual part of the education of boys in a building which
but for some extraordinary disappointments I should have erected eight or nine
years ago in that garden of mine which you saw. On
looking into a published not long ago published by Mr
Hill of Hazlewood near Birmingham, 120 miles from London I saw that the
principles, as to the intellectual branch of education perfectly agreeing
with mine, he had added others belonging to the moral branch, which
in my situation, could not have been carried into effect,
and which were instead the result of Genius operating upon
an experience which had never been within my reach.
I On inquiry, finding that they
had in that instance received the fullest confirmation from
practice, I, from that moment, determined to give up my own own scheme altogether,
and, according to the measure of my moderate ability faculties, to apply
myself to the giving enlargement to the establishment of Mr Hill. I have made
so far that his Boarding School has already acquired unexampled celebrity has offers
of more pupils than it will hold, and arrangements are taken
for planting an effect from it in the neighbourhood of London that metropolis
In a letter received a year or two ago, he told me I had
been the means of doubling his number. At my recommendation
about half a year ago, Rivadavia — the managing man from
Buenos Ayres — placed those two sons of his, and soon after
a cousin together with another boy boy of that country who was
under his guardianship: and I have full reason to be assured
of his perfect satisfaction. [+]1
[+]1 indeed while writing
I have received information just heard of
been informed that a fifth is just arrived,
in consequence of the information
received there of the success
in the case of the two first
since when another
boy has arrived from
Bo A.
If, in the course of the short short ulterior time I can
expect to live, any person at your recommendation should be
disposed to send to that school a child or children for instruction to that School, it would of course be
a great no small pleasure to me to keep a guarding eye on their welfare. of receiving the like

The improvements of all sorts now in progress are astounding
The breed of cattle has within my time received astounding remarkable improvements.
The breed of men, considered as a physical point of view is at the eve
of

Go on mentioning the
connection of Velho
with Hazlewood

Identifier: | JB/012/343/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1825-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	343	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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