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1821 June 11
To Carvalho

Sir,

The state of my eyes prevents my forwarding dispatching by this
Mail the communication hinted at in my former letter. I hope it
will not be delayed longer than the next.

I will not however let the present occasion pass, without
troubling you with a few suggestions, the motives to which, will I
flatter myself be sufficiently apparent upon the face of them. For
this purpose writing is not necessary: dictating to an amanuensis suffices.

The first relates to education, as applied to the mass of the
people. On the subject of the new method, known mostly by the
name of the Lancasterian method, but designated sometimes by other
names, among the works presented to the Cortes will be found a
paper, printed table-wise, upon one side of a very large sheet. To
speak my approbation of it the more freely, in as much as in
the original invention I had no share, any more than in the maturation
of it, a two small annual pecuniary donation excepted. The
scheme of instruction has been described, as well as carried on, by
the Inventors, in their own way: nor do I know do I recollect having have I heard of any special use that has
been made, here or elsewhere, of the abridged and systematic view
which this Table of mine presents, with I believe some small improvements.
But I give it with some confidence, as capable of
saving no small part of the trouble, that would be necessary, to the
study of it in the originals, considering the diffuse and desultory
manner in which they are perused.

A circumstance that emboldens encourages me to submitt it to your
confidence cognizance is this. At Buenos Ayres, where it has not been planted
(I believe) more than two years, certainly not more than three it has taken root, and is extending
itself over the country in an extraordinary degree. I speak not only
from such accounts as have found their way into our newspapers,
but also from trustworthy private letters. A young man of the name
of Thompson – and those an Eleve of our British & Foreign School, Society Lancasterian alias Lancasterian Society –
has the conduct of it. The confusion, in which government in that country Government, &
consequently every thing under it has so long laboured – a confusion not scarcely to be matched
in history, & of which I have seen details in a deplorable abundance,
renders this one punctum saliens of prosperity the more it remarkable,
and the more encouraging.

Identifier: | JB/013/190/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1821-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	190	Info in main headings field	to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2775, vol. 10	ID Number	4639
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