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Dear xxxx Crecheff in White Russia xxxxxx 1787

I observed t' other day, in the James Chronicle, one of your English papers,
an advertisement relative to of a pamphlet on the subject of a House of Correction,
therein spoken of, as intended for the County of Middlesex. xxxxxxxxxx. It occurred to me, that
the Plan of a Building, lately contrived by my Brother, for purposes in some respects
similar, and which, under the Name of the Inspection House, or the
Elaboratory, he is about erecting here, might afford some hints for the above
Establishment. (a) I have accordingly obtained some Drawings, relative to it, which
I here inclose: Indeed I look upon it as capable of applications of the most
extensive nature; and that for reasons which you will soon perceive.—

To say all in one word, it will be found applicable, I think without
exception, to all establishments whatsoever, in which, within a space not too
large to be covered or commanded by buildings, a number of persons are meant
to be left kept under inspection. No matter how different, or even opposite the
the purpose: whether it be, that of punishing the incorrigible, guarding the
insane, reforming the vitious, confining the suspected, employing the idle,
maintaining the helpless, curing the sick, instructing the willing, in any
branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of Education: in
a word whether it be applyed to the purposes of perpetual Prisons in the room
of death, or Prisons for confinement before trial, or Penitentiary-houses, or
Houses of Correction, or Work-houses, or Manufactories, or Mad-houses, or
Hospitals, or Schools. —

It is obvious that, in all these instances, the more constantly
the persons to be inspected are under the eyes of the persons who should inspect
them, the more perfectly will the purpose of the establishment have been
attainted. Ideal perfection, if that were the object would require that each

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