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330 commemoration of the Adam Street Grammar School in a distant suburb of the City. This is a mixed school for boys & girls, or rather for young Ladies, for some of the latter were certainly not less than Eighteen years of age. There were present on the occasion the superintendent, some assistant superintendents, or committee-men, I forget which was their title, & many of the parents of the children. The work consisted in recitations, singing, & reading extracts from a periodical, written by the pupils, & published in the School. The reciting was fairly true. No timidity was shown by any young Lady who ascended the Platform; but there was no boldness, or any thing in any way objectionable. There was only a degree of easy self-possession that wd. have been unusual in English Ladies of any age. I mention this because the impression left on Mr? Fraser's mind by exhibitors of this kind, appears not to have been favorable. As soon as the business of the day was over, Mr? Philbrick, being the chief official in the city, unclear with unclear, was called upon by the Head Master to make a speech, or as it is called in America, to deliver an address. After speaking for about ten minutes he concluded by telling the company who I was, & with whom I was acquainted in the city, adding that he hoped I wd. give their present the pleasure of hearing me say something. I was a little taken by surprise at this summons, the heat of the room having about put me to sleep. Otherwise one ought always to be prepared for such requests, because in America you may be quite sure that they will always be made. It is one of their institutions.