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1825 July 14 J.B. to Bolivar

+ *9 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 sent on looking into a established not long ago published by the Hill of Hazlewood neat Birmingham, 120 miles from London I saw that to , 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 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 offered of more pu8pils 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 their 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 been informed that a fifth is just arrived, in consequence of 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 time I can expect to him, 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 children

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

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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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Notes public		ID Number	4404
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