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[pre-printed] 15 KELVIN GROVE, LIVERPOOL, S. [end pre-printed]

30/8/93

Dear Mrs Stanford

You're too kind. I hardly hoped that the next mail would have [insert] brought [/insert] your photo with a duplicate of Mr Stanford, but it did to my great pleasure. I wish I had a better return of an artistic kind to make than on the enclosed comparitive miniature of my own countenance.

As you will guess from my previous enclosures, I have what some of my friends here call "a bee in my bonnet" - as to education. I have lost no opportunity of visiting schools & colleges, not only in the United Kingdom, but in the European Continent. On my second visit to America, I devoted a considerable time to this work, and under the auspices of dear old Peter Cooper, spent some time in the NY schools going west as far as Louisville & Chicago. On my return I lectured in Manchester, where the announcement of a famous politician of the day as chairman secured me a large audience. The information I had [begot soon ?] afterwards embodied in a pamphlet

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& commented on in the metropolitan press. Some of it was as novel to the public as Normal Schools ([illegible]) were to Americans not long before.

In 1873 I spent the fall in a still more delightful tour including the schools of Canada & went again to Chicago. The whole question had made a prodigious stride in those 10 years. I wrote a number of sketches in a newspaper embodying these results & I enclose them feeling sure they will be of interest to you. In1881 I again travelled over the same ground, recognizing especially in Womens Colleges like Wellesley & others a further advance. A hope that I might still have a [illegible] like visit to the new & [memory?] land & possibly [illegible] not only my friend at Berkeley but especially the Leland Stanford [illegible] of the [illegible]. is only frustrated by an unexpected loss of income last year. I shall however not less rejoice in the knowledge