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 THE PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. 
 
 Entered according to an Act of Oongreas, A. D. 1868, bj/ W. H. Bkll, i» the District Court of the District of Columbia. 
 
THE 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF BALTIMOEE. 
 
 THE FOUNDER'S LETTERS 
 
 AND THE 
 
 PAPERS RELATING TO ITS DEDICATION AND ITS HISTORY, 
 
 Tip to the 1st January, 1868. 
 
 BALTIMOEE: 
 STEAM PRESS OF WILLIAM K. BOYLE, 
 
 Corner op Baltimore and St. Paul Streets. 
 
 1868. 
 
^1 SIJl^oc 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 JOHN P. KENNEDY, President. 
 JOSIAS PENNINGTON, Vice-President. 
 ENOCH PEATT, Treasurer. 
 OHAELES J. M. EATON, Secretary. 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 J. P. KENNEDY, 
 OHAELES J. M. EATON, 
 THOMAS SWANN, 
 JOHN B. MOEETS, 
 JOSIAS PENNINGTON, 
 WM. McKIM, 
 DAVID S. "WILSON, 
 JOHN M, GOEDON, 
 SAMUEL W. SMITH, 
 OHAUNOEY BEOOKS, 
 WM. F. MUEDOCH, 
 ENOCH PEATT, 
 
 GEOEGE WM. BEOWN, 
 GALLOWAY CHESTON, 
 GEOEGE P. TIFFANY, 
 EDW. M. GEEENWAY, Jk, 
 WM. C. SHAW, 
 S. T. WALLIS, 
 CHAELES HOWAED, 
 GEOEGE W. DOBBIN, 
 THOMAS WHITEIDGE, 
 JOSEPH GUSHING, Je. 
 EEVEEDY JOHNSON, Je. 
 THOMAS DONALDSON. 
 
 J. MASON CAMPBELL, 
 
 N. H. MOEISON, Frovost. 
 
 P. E. UHLEE, Pirst Assistant I/ibranan. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 LET TEES: page. 
 
 EiiOM Mb. Peab(idy, founding the Tnstitute, February 12th, 185T 5 
 
 " " " appointing pebsons to till vacancies in Boabd 
 
 op Tbustebs, February 14th, 1857 33 
 
 Of Accept.'lnce, February I'JtIi, 1857 38 
 
 Pko.1i Duncan, Sherman & Co., March 11th, 1857 30 
 
 " June 34th, 1857 31 
 
 llK. Peabody, October 8th, 1858 .' 32 
 
 May 8th. 1806 33 
 
 October 19th, 1800 34 
 
 Mb. Pennington, October 25th, 1866 36 
 
 " Me. Peabody, November 5th, 1860 37 
 
 May 8th, 1806 40 
 
 DEED^ CHAETBB, &c.. 
 
 Deed 45 
 
 Act of Incobpoeation 48 
 
 Supplemental Act of Incobpoeation 55 
 
 By-Laws 58 
 
 Kepoet of Libeaey Committee 08 
 
 EULES AND EeGULATIONS FOB LlEBABY, 71 
 
 CiECULAE— Opening of Ebading Eoom 74 
 
 DEDICATION CBEBMONIES: 
 
 Committee of Abeangements— Trustees, 78 
 
 " Eeception 78 
 
 Pbeface 79 
 
 Peayeb by Eev. Dr. Backus 83 
 
 GOVEBNOB Swann's Addeess 85 
 
 Mr. Pbabody's Eesponsb 90 
 
 Address of the Trustees 98 
 
 The Library 110 
 
 The School of Lectures 113 
 
 The Academy of Music 117 
 
 The Gallery of Art 130 
 
CONTElirTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Mr. Peabodt's Addbebb to the Childben oe the PtjBi.ic Schools 131 
 
 Annual Letter fkom the Boabp of Trustees 133 
 
 Synopsis op Eepoets: 
 
 EecelptB and ExpenditureB 137 
 
 The Library 139 
 
 Lectures 140 
 
 Music 141 
 
 Fine Arts 142 
 
 Treasurer's Report 144 
 
LETTERS FROM GEORGE PEABODY, Esq. 
 
 Baltimore, February 12th, 1857. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 In pursuance of a purpose long entertained by me, 
 and which I communicated to some of you more than 
 two years ago, I have determined, without further 
 delay, to establish and endow an Institute in this 
 City, which, I hope, may become useful towards the 
 improvement of the moral and intellectual culture of 
 the inhabitants of Baltimore, and collaterally to those 
 of the State; and, also, towards the enlargement and 
 diffusion of a taste for the Fine Arts." 
 
 My wishes, in regard to the scope and character of 
 this Institute, are known to some of you through a 
 personal communication of my purpose. In the -sequel 
 of this letter I shall further advert to that subject. 
 
 In presenting to you the object I propose, I wish you 
 to understand that the details proper to its organization 
 and ■ government and its future control and conduct, T 
 
6 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 submit entirely to your judgment and discretion; and 
 the perpetuity of that control I confide to you and 
 your successors, to be appointed in the manner pre- 
 scribed in this letter. 
 
 I request you to accept this trust as my friends, 
 amongst whom, I hope there will ever be found the 
 utmost harmony and concert of action, in all that 
 relates to thfe achievement of the good which it is my 
 aim to secure to the City. 
 
 You and your successors will constitute forever a 
 Board of Trustees, twenty-five in number, to be main- 
 tained in perpetual succession, for the accomplishment, 
 preservation and supervision of the purposes for which 
 the Institute is to be established. To you and your 
 successors, therefore, I hereby give full and exclusive 
 power to do whatsoever you may deem most advisable, 
 for the foundation, organization and management of 
 the proposed Institute : and to that end I give to 
 you, and will place at your disposal, to be paid to 
 you as you may require, for the present, three hun- 
 dred thousand dollars, to be expended by you in 
 such manner as you may determine to be most con- 
 ducive to the effective and early establishment and 
 future maintenance and support of such an Institute 
 as you may deem best adapted to fulfil my inten- 
 tions as expressed in this letter. 
 
LETTERS FROM MR. PBABODY. 7 
 
 In the general scheme and organization of the 
 Institute, I wish it to provide — 
 
 First. — For an extensive Library, to be well fur- 
 nished in every department of knowledge, and of 
 the most approved literature; which is to be main- 
 tained for the free use of all persons who may desire 
 to consult it, and be supplied with every proper 
 convenience for daily reference and study, within 
 appointed hours of the week days of every year. 
 It should consist of the best works on every subject 
 embraced within the scope of its plan, and as com- 
 pletely adapted, as the means at your command may 
 allow, to satisfy the researches of students who may 
 be engaged in the pursuit of knowledge not ordinarily 
 attainable in the private libraries of the country. 
 It should be guarded and preserved from abuse, and 
 rendered efficient for the purposes I contemplate in 
 its establishment, by such regulations as the judg- 
 ment and experience of the Trustees may adopt or 
 approve, I recommend, in reference to' such regu- 
 lations, that it shall not be constructed upon the 
 plan of a circulating library; and that the books 
 shall not be allowed to be taken out of the building, 
 except in very special cases, and in accordance with 
 rules adapted to them as exceptional privileges. 
 
8 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Second. — I desire that ample provision and accom- 
 modation be made for the regular periodical delivery, 
 at the proper season in each year, of lectures by 
 the most capable and accomplished scholars and men 
 of science, within the power of the Trustees to pro- 
 cure. These lectures should be directed to instruc- 
 tions in science, art and literature. They should 
 be established with such regulations as, in the judg- 
 ment of the Trustees, shall be most effectual to 
 secure the benefits expected from them; and should, 
 under proper and necessary restrictions adapted to 
 preserve .good order and guard against abuse, be open 
 to the resort of the respectable inhabitants, of both 
 sexes, of the City and State: such prices of admis- 
 sion being required as may serve to defray a portion 
 of the necessary expenses of maintaining the lectures 
 without impairing their usefulness to the community. 
 
 In connection with this provision, I desire that the 
 Trustees, in order to encourage and reward merit, 
 should adopt a regulation by which a number of the 
 graduates of the public High Schools of the City, not 
 exceeding fifty of each sex, in each year, who shall 
 have obtained, by their proficiency in their studies 
 and their good behaviour, certificates of merit from 
 the Commissioners or superintending authorities of 
 the Schools to which they may be attached, may. 
 
LETTBKS FROM ME. PBABODY. 9 
 
 by virtue of such certificates, be entitled, as an 
 honorary mark of distinction, to free admission to 
 the lectures for one term or season after obtaining 
 the certificates. 
 
 I also desire that, for the same purpose of encour- 
 aging merit, the Trustees shall make suitable pro- 
 vision for an annual grant of twelve hundred dollars ; 
 of which five hundred shall be distributed every year, 
 in money prizes, graduated according to merit, of 
 sums of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than 
 one hundred for each prize, to be given to such gra- 
 duates of the public Male High Schools now existing 
 or which may hereafter be established, as shall, in 
 each year, upon examination and certificate of the 
 School Commissioners, or other persons having the 
 chief superintendence of the same, be adjudged most 
 worthy, from their fidelity to their studies, their 
 attainments, their moral deportment, their personal 
 habits of cleanliness and propriety of manners: the 
 sum of two hundred dollars to be appropriated to 
 the purchase, in every year, of gold medals of two 
 degrees, of which ten shall be of the value of ten 
 dollars each, and twenty of the value of five dollars 
 each, to be annually distributed to the most meri- 
 torious of the graduating classes of the public Female 
 High Schools; these prizes to be adjudged for the 
 
10 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 same merit, and under the like regulations, as the 
 prizes to be given to the graduates of the Male 
 High Schools. The remaining five hundred dollars 
 to be, in like manner, distributed in money prizes, 
 as provided above for the graduates of the Male 
 High School, in the same amounts respectively, to 
 the yearly graduates in the School of Design attached 
 to the Mechanics Institute of this City. To render 
 this, annual distribution of prizes effective to the end 
 I have in view, I desire that the Trustees shall 
 digest, propose, and adopt all such rules and pro- 
 visions, and procure the correspondent regulations on 
 the part of the public institutions referred to, as they 
 may deem necessary to accomplish the object. 
 
 Third. — I wish, also, that the Institute shall em- 
 brace within its plan an Academy of Music, adapted, 
 in the most effective manner, to diffuse and cultivate 
 a taste for that, the most refining of all the arts. 
 By providing a capacious and suitably furnished 
 saloon, the facilities necessary to the best exhibitions 
 of the art, the means of studying its principles and 
 practising its compositions, and periodical concerts, 
 aided by the best talent and most eminent skill 
 within their means to procure, the Trustees may 
 promote the purpose to which I propose to devote 
 this department of the Institute. They will make 
 
LEITTERS FEOM ME. PEABODY. 11 
 
 all such regulations as, in their judgment, are most 
 likely to render the Academy of Music the instru- 
 ment of permanent good to the society of this City. 
 As it will necessarily incur considerable expense for 
 its support, I desire that it may be, in part, sus- 
 tained by such charges for admission to its privileges 
 as the Trustees may consider proper, and, at the 
 same time, compatible with my design to render it 
 useful to the community. And I suggest for their 
 consideration the propriety of regulating the condi- 
 tions of an annual membership of the Academy, as 
 well as the terms of occasional admission to the 
 saloon — if they should consider it expedient at any 
 time to extend the privilege of admission beyond 
 the number of those who may be enrolled as mem- 
 bers. 
 
 Fourth. — I contemplate with great satisfaction, as 
 an auxiliary to the improvement of the taste, and, 
 through it, the moral elevation of the character of 
 the society of Baltimore, the establishment of a Gal- 
 lery of Art in the department of Painting and Sta- 
 tuary. It is, therefore, my wish that such a gallery 
 should be included in the plan of the Institute, and 
 that spacious and appropriate provision be made for 
 it. It should be supplied, to such an extent as may 
 be practicable, with the works of the best masters. 
 
12 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 and be placed under such regulations as shall secure 
 free access to it, during stated periods of every year, 
 by all orderly and respectable persons who may take 
 an interest in works of this kind; and particularly 
 that, under wholesome restraints to preserve good 
 order and decorous deportment, it may be rendered 
 instructive to artists in the pursuit of their peculiar 
 studies, and in affording them opportunity to make 
 drawings and copies from the works it may contain. 
 
 As annual or periodical Exhibitions of Paintings 
 and Statuary are calculated, in my opinion, to aflPord 
 equal gratification and instruction^ to the community, 
 and may serve to supply a valuable fund for the 
 enrichment of the gallery, I suggest to the Trustees 
 the establishment of such Exhibitions, as far as they 
 may find it practicable from the resources within 
 their reach. 
 
 Lastly. — I desire that ample and convenient ac- 
 commodation may be made in the building of the 
 Institute for the use of the Maryland Historical So- 
 ciety, of which I am and have long been a member. 
 It is my wish that that Society should permanently 
 occupy its appropriate rooms as soon as they are 
 provided, and should, at the proper time when this 
 can be done, be appointed by the Trustees to be 
 the guardian and protector of the property of the 
 
LBTTEES FROM MR. PEABODY. 13 
 
 Institute; and that, if it accept this duty and, in 
 conformity with, my wish, shall remove into and 
 take possession of the apartments designed for its 
 use, it shall also be requested and empowered to 
 assume the management and administration of the 
 operations of the several departments as the same 
 shall be established and organized by the Trustees. 
 That it shall, at a proper time in every year, appoint 
 from its own members appropriate and efficient Com- 
 mittees, to be charged respectively with the arrange- 
 ment and direction of the operations and conduct of 
 each department in the functions assigned to each 
 by the Trustees. That, in the performance of these 
 duties, it shall keep in view the purposes which it is 
 my aim to promote; give due attention to the 
 details necessary to accomplish them, and adopt suit- 
 able measures to execute the plan of organization 
 made by the Trustees, and carry into full and useful 
 effect my intentions as disclosed in this letter. 
 
 The Trustees, after the Historical Society shall 
 have accepted these duties, shall, nevertheless, possess 
 a full and complete visitatorial power over the pro- 
 ceedings of the Society touching the subjects I have 
 confided to the Board. To guard against any misap- 
 prehension which might lead to a conflict between 
 these bodies, I beg it to be understood that, in this 
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14 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 arrangement, I intend the power of the Board to be 
 adapted to the organization and general direction of 
 the departments, and that of the Society to their 
 operations and conduct in conformity with such 
 organization and general direction. I hope that the 
 Board of Trustees and the Society will always act 
 in the discharge of the functions I have assigned 
 to them respectively, with a liberal spirit of concert 
 and co-operation and with a harmonious and united 
 determination to render the Institute an agency of 
 enduring benefit to the community in which it is 
 placed. 
 
 If there be any legal incapacity in the Maryland 
 Historical Society to assume and perform the duties 
 which it is my wish it should undertake, the 
 Trustees will be careful to wait until that impedi- 
 ment is removed, by the grant of proper power to 
 that end by the Legislature, before they commit 
 these duties to that body. And if, at any time 
 hereafter, that Society should become extinct, it will 
 be the duty of the Trustees then existing to assume 
 to themselves the ministration and management of 
 the several departments of ,the Institute in the 
 details I have here assigned to the care of the 
 Society. 
 
LETTERS FROM MR. PBABODY. 15 
 
 The Trustees will make such provision out of the 
 moneys I have now placed at their disposal, and 
 out of such as I may hereafter give them, as may 
 be necessary for the purchase of the ground and the 
 erection of the building for the Institute; and will 
 also, in due time, make all suitable provision for 
 the investment of the several funds required for the 
 repair, preservation and insurance of the building 
 and other property connected with it; for its fuel, 
 lighting and furniture ; for the service of the Library 
 and apartments belonging to it; for the yearly pur- 
 chase of books; for the service, management and 
 expense of the Lecture Department ; for the charges 
 and support of the Academy of Music; for the sup- 
 port, maintenance and gradual increase of the Gallery 
 of Art; for the supply of the yearly prizes to the 
 graduates of the High Schools, and the School of 
 Design; and for all proper, contingent or incidental 
 expenses of the Institute, in whatever branch the 
 same may be needed. In the performance of this 
 duty, I wish them to make a specific designation of 
 the fund appropriated, from time to time, to each 
 department, as well as of that for the general ser- 
 vice of all ; and that these several appropriations be 
 made in such proportions as the necessities of each 
 department may require and the means at the dis- 
 
16 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 posal of the Trustees may allow. And it is also my 
 wish, in connection with this subject of the funds I 
 have directed to be supplied, that they, as well as 
 whatever I may hereafter supply, shall always be 
 held under the control and guardianship of the Trus- 
 tees, in conformity with such regulations as they may 
 adopt for their preservation, appropriation and invest- 
 ment, from time to time, in the administration of the 
 trust. And that, when the Maryland Historical 
 Society shall assume the i management of the depart- 
 ments as I have mentioned above, the Trustees shall 
 put at their disposal, in each year, the amount they 
 shall have appropriated for each service, as herein- 
 before required, to be disbursed by the Society ac- 
 cording to its appointed destination. 
 
 These, gentlemen, are the general instructions I 
 have to impart to you for your guidance in the 
 laborious duties I have committed to your care. 
 You will perceive that, my design is to establish 
 an Institute which shall, in some degree, administer 
 to the benefit of every portion of the community of 
 Baltimore: which shall supply the means of pursuing 
 the acquirement of knowledge, and the study of art 
 to every emulous student of either sex, who may be 
 impelled by the laudable desire of improvement to 
 seek it: which shall furnish incentives to the ambi- 
 
LETTERS FROM MR. PBABODY. 17 
 
 tion of meritorious youth in the Public Schools, and 
 in that useful School of Design under the charge of 
 the Mechanics Institute, by providing for those who 
 excel, a reward, which, I hope, will be found to be, 
 not only a token of honorary distinction, but also a 
 timely contribution towards the means of the worthy 
 candidate who shall win it, for the commencement 
 of a successful career in life : which shall afford 
 opportunity to those whom fortune has blessed with 
 leisure, to cultivate those kindly and liberalizing 
 arts, that embellish the character by improving the 
 perception of the beautiful and the true, and which, 
 by habituating the mind to the contemplation of the 
 best works of genius, render it more friendly and 
 generous towards the success of deserving artists in 
 their early endeavors after fame. 
 
 For the fulfilling and preserving of the trust I 
 have confided to you, my wish is that you, gentle- 
 men, or as many of you as may accept this appoint- 
 ment, will meet together, at as early a day as may 
 be convenient for you, and take such measures for 
 your own organization and government as you may 
 find necessary, making a record of your acceptance 
 and of all proceedings you may adopt. That if your 
 full number of twenty-five should be rendered incom- 
 plete by the refusal of any of you to accept the 
 
18 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 appointment, you will, as soon as practicable, fill the 
 same by the selection of the necessary number from 
 a list of two hundred names selected from the ranks- 
 of your most worthy fellow-citizens, which I here- 
 with furnish you,"- and which list I desire you to 
 enter upon your record for future use. 
 
 I also desire and request that if, at any time 
 hereafter during the life of the present generation, 
 vacancies should occur in your number of twenty- 
 five, by death, resignation, incapacity to serve or 
 removal from the State, you and your successors 
 shall fill such vacancies, by judicious selection from 
 the list above mentioned of such person or persons 
 therein named as may then be living and may be 
 qualified, by capacity and good standing in the com- 
 munity, to perform the duties required; and when, 
 in after time, this generation shall have passed 
 away, I desire that your succession may be pre- 
 served by the appointment to vacant places in your 
 Board of such of your sons, or the sons of those on 
 the list I have given you, as may then be acces- 
 sible to the choice of your successors and may be 
 worthy, from their personal qualifications and good 
 repute in Baltimore, to assume the charge of the 
 Institute. And, finally, when these sources shall 
 
LETTERS FROM ME. PEABODY. 19 
 
 fail, I desire that the succession in the Board of 
 Trustees shall be ever maintained by the careful 
 selection, from time to time, of such eminent and 
 capable citizens of Baltimore, as may be willing to 
 administer to the service of this community, by the 
 devotion of a portioja of their time to a work which, 
 I earnestly hope, may be found to be, both in the 
 influence of its example and in the direct adminis- 
 tration of its purpose, a long,' fruitful, and prosper- 
 ous benefaction to the good people of Baltimore. 
 
 I must not omit to impress upon you a sugges- 
 tion for the government of the Institute, which I 
 deem to be of the highest moment and which I 
 desire shall be ever present to the view of the 
 Board of Trustees. My earnest wish to promote, 
 at all times, a spirit of harmony and good will in 
 society; my aversion to intolerance, bigotry and 
 party rancor, and my enduring respect and love for 
 the happy institutions of our prosperous republic, 
 impel me to express the wish that the Institute I 
 have proposed to you, shall always be strictly 
 guarded against the possibility of being made a 
 theatre for the dissemination or discussion of sec- 
 tarian theology or party politics; that it shall never 
 minister, in any manner whatever, to political dis- 
 
20 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 sension, to infidelity, to visionary theories of a pre- 
 tended philosophy which may be aimed at the 
 subversion of the approved morals of society; that it 
 shall never lend its aid or influence to the propa- 
 gation of opinions tending to create or encourage 
 sectional jealousies in our happy country, or which 
 may lead to the alienation of the people of one 
 State or section of the Union from those of another. 
 But that it shall be so conducted, throughout its 
 whole career, as to teach political and religious 
 charity, toleration and beneficence, and prove itself 
 to be, in all contingencies and conditions, the "true 
 friend pf our inestimable Union, of the salutary 
 institutions of free government, and of liberty regu- 
 lated by law. I enjoin these precepts upon the 
 Board of Trustees and their successors foreveiv '^for 
 their invariable observance and enforcement in the 
 administration of the duties I have confided to them. 
 And now, in conclusion, I have only to express 
 my wish, that, in providing for the building you 
 are to erect, you will allow space for future addi- 
 tions in case they may be found necessary, and that 
 in its plan, style of architecture, and adaptation to 
 its various uses, it may be worthy of the purpose 
 to which it is dedicated, and may serve to embel- 
 lish a City whose prosperity, I trust, will ever be 
 
LETTERS FROM ME. PEABODY. 
 
 21 
 
 distingi:|ished by an equal growth ia knowledge and 
 virtue. 
 
 I am, with great respect, 
 
 Your friend, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
 To 
 
 Wm. E. Mayhbw, - 
 John P. Kennedy, 
 Ohas. J. M. Eaton, 
 Thomas Swann, 
 Gi;0EGE Beown, 
 John B. Moeeis, 
 8. WINGS Hoffman, 
 
 G^'^.W. BUENAP, 
 
 ^M. il. D. 0. Weight, 
 JqsIas Pennington, 
 Wm. McKim, 
 David B. Wilson, 
 John M. Goedon, 
 
 Samuel W. Smith, 
 Chaunoey Beooks, 
 Wm. p. Mtjedooh, 
 Enoch Peatt, 
 J. Mason Campbell, 
 Geo. W. Beown, , 
 Galloway Cheston, 
 Geo. p. Tiffany, 
 Wm. Peesoott Smith, 
 Chas. Beadenbaugh, 
 Edw. M. Geeenway, Je. 
 Wm. 0. Shaw. 
 
22 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 APPOIKTMEIsrT OF PERSOIsrS 
 
 TO FILL VACANCIES REFEKRED TO IN THE FOREGOING LETTER. 
 
 Baltimore, February l^th, 1857. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 In the organization of the Institute to be estab- 
 lished in this City, in conformity with a plan adopted 
 by me, I have confided its government to a Board 
 of Trustees, twenty-five in number, to be preserved 
 in constant and perpetual succession by their own 
 selection and appointment. And as, from the nature 
 of the duties required of them, they are necessarily 
 limited within a compass which excludes a large 
 number of those whom I should be glad to interest 
 in the success of the undertaking, I have thought I 
 might, in some degree, assure myself of this advan- 
 tage, by placing in the hands of the Board of Trus- 
 tees, the names of two hundred citizens, selected 
 from the most worthy and^ intelligent of this City, 
 comprised of many whom it has been my good for- 
 
LETTERS FROM ME. PEABODY. 23 
 
 tune, in time past, to rank amongst my intimate 
 personal friends, several of the sons of my old asso- 
 ciates now gone, and a still greater number of dis- 
 tinguished members of this community, with whom, 
 from my long residence abroad, I have been denied 
 the pleasure of intimate acquaintance. 
 
 These names have been communicated to the 
 Trustees in a list for record, to be preserved by 
 them for the purpose, so long as it may present 
 persons qualified to perform the trust, of supplying 
 the means of selection of the best citizens for such 
 vacancies as must occur in the Board. 
 
 I venture to assure myself, gentlemen, that you 
 will allow your names to be retained on that list for 
 the contingency I have contemplated, and that you 
 will regard this appeal to your aid, in that contin- 
 gency, as a proof of my respect for the position you 
 hold in the confidence of this community. 
 
 With the highest esteem, I am. Gentlemen, 
 Your humble Servant, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
 To Messes. 
 
 Andrew Aldridge, A. S. Abell, 
 
 Augustus J. Albert, Wm. Btuart Appleton, 
 
 Wm. J. Albert, John H. Alexander, 
 
24 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Rev. J. 0. Backus, 
 Rev. L. P. Balch, 
 F. W. Brane, 
 J. N. Bonaparte, 
 Dr. John Buckler, 
 Dr. T. H. Buckler, 
 Elisha N. Browne, 
 Robert P. Brown, 
 William Bose, 
 R. J. Baker, 
 Samuel M. Barry, 
 Dr. Thos. E. Bond, 
 N. C. Brooks, 
 James Birckkead, 
 Hugh Birckhead, 
 Robert D. Brown, 
 J. G. Bathurst, 
 B. 0. BarroU, 
 William Cooke, 
 John Clark, 
 Charles Carroll, of C. 
 Dr. Joshua I. Cohen, 
 Dr. F. E. Chatard, 
 Joseph Cushing, Jr. 
 Charles R. Carroll, 
 J. I. Cohen, Jr. 
 
 Geo. B. Coale, 
 Dr. Samuel Chew, 
 Rev. A. C. Coxe, 
 Jacob G. Davies, 
 J. J. Donaldson, 
 John S. Donnell, 
 James Donnell, 
 Geo. W. Dobbin, 
 Grafton L. Dulaney, 
 Thomas Donaldson, 
 x'^.ustin Dall, 
 H. Winter Davis, 
 Basil T. Elder, 
 Geo. ]Sr. Eaton, 
 Hugh W. Evans, 
 Hooper C. Eaton, 
 Wm. M. EUicott, 
 Hugh Davy Evans, 
 Rev. Alexius J. Elder, 
 James I. Fisher, 
 Dr. Charles Frick, 
 Wm. F. Frick, 
 Rev. Richard Fuller, 
 E. 8. Frey, 
 John Gibson, 
 S. K. George, 
 
LETTBES FROM ME. PEABODY. 
 
 25 
 
 Geo. R. Gaither, 
 R. Gilmor, Jr. 
 Wm. F. Giles, 
 Dr. Geo. S. Gibson, 
 William Gill, 
 Geo. M. Gill, 
 Hugh Gelston, 
 James George, 
 Wm. H. Graham, 
 Wm. Gilmor, 
 W. W. Glenn, 
 Henry Garrett, 
 John Garrett, 
 John S. Gittings, 
 Lambert Gittings, 
 Alex. B. Gordon, 
 Patrick Gibson, 
 John Henderson, 
 Geo. B. Hoffman, 
 Wm. H. Hoffman, 
 Benj. 0. Howard, 
 J. Morrison Harris, 
 Johns Hopkins, 
 Wm. Taylor Hall, 
 John E. Howard, 
 Edward Otis Hinckley, 
 
 Charles Hinckley, 
 Charles Howard, 
 George L. Harrison, 
 Wm. G. Harrison, 
 R. M. Hare, 
 Geo. C. Irwin, 
 Reverdy Johnson, 
 Rev. H. V. D. Johns, 
 Reverdy Johnson, Jr. 
 Hugh Jenkins, 
 Wilmot .Johnson, 
 Dr. Christo. Johnston, 
 Joseph King, Jr. 
 Wm. H. Keighler, 
 Anthony Kennedy, 
 Charles M. Keyser, 
 Edward Kemp, 
 Dandridge Kennedy, 
 J. H. B. Latrobe, 
 Alex. Lorman, 
 Alonzo Lilly, 
 G. W. Lurman, 
 Wm. P. Lemmon, 
 Thos. W. Levering, 
 Wm. P. Lucas, 
 B. H. Latrobe, 
 
26 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Richard Lemmon, 
 Robert Leslie, 
 Jonathan Meredith, 
 Samuel Manning, 
 Wm. E. Mayhew, Jr. 
 Thomas H. Morris, 
 Charles F. Mayer, 
 Isaac Munroe, 
 Robert Mickle, 
 Charles Marean, 
 Rev. J. G. Morris, 
 Brantz Mayer, 
 Wm. D. Miller, 
 Henry May, 
 R. N. Martin, 
 N. H. Morison, 
 Dr. J. H. McCuUoh, 
 Louis McLane, 
 Hazlitt McKim, 
 Robert McKim, 
 Dr. John P. Mackenzie, 
 J. V. L. McMahon, 
 James McHenry, 
 Ramsay McHenry, 
 Richard Norris, 
 J. Spear Nicholas, 
 
 Columbus O'Donuell, 
 
 John P. Poor, 
 
 Charles R. Pearce, 
 
 Wm. C. Pennington, 
 
 David N. Perine, 
 
 Henry Patterson, 
 
 Charles H. Pitts, 
 
 Rev. G. D. Purviance, 
 
 William H. Price, 
 
 George W. Riggs, 
 
 W. T. Riggs, 
 
 John Ridgely, of Hampton, 
 
 William Geo. Read, 
 
 Dr. A. C. Robinson, 
 
 Henry G. Rice, 
 
 Lloyd Rogers, 
 
 George H. Steuart, 
 
 J. Spear Smith, 
 
 David Stewart, 
 
 Albert Schumacher, 
 
 S. F. Streeter, 
 
 James Swann, 
 
 D. Sprigg, 
 
 Dr. J. A. Steuart, 
 
 Dr. N. R. Smith, 
 
 Archibald Sterling, 
 
LETTERS FEOM MR. PEABODY. 
 
 27 
 
 P. H. BuUivan, 
 I. Nevitt Steele, 
 Comfort Tiffany, 
 Joseph Taylor, 
 Philip P. Thomas, 
 Philip E. Thomas, 
 Dr. J. Hanson Thomas, 
 Rev. 0. H. Tiffany, 
 William S. Tiffany, 
 George Tiffany, 
 Alexander Turnbull, 
 Robert A. Taylor, 
 W. A. Talbott, 
 William H. Travers, 
 Joshua Vansant, 
 B. P. Voss, 
 Henry Von Kapff, 
 John C. Vanwyck, 
 Amos A. Williams, 
 Henry White, 
 
 Lewin Wethered, 
 Dr. John Whitridge, 
 Henry R. Wilson, 
 Rev. W. E. Wyatt, 
 Robert C. Wright, 
 N. P. Williams, 
 William P. Whyte, 
 Thomas Wilson, 
 Rt. Rev. W. R. Whitting- 
 
 ham, 
 Samuel Gr. Wyman, 
 S. Teackle Wallis, 
 John White, 
 Nathaniel Williams, 
 Thomas Whitridge, 
 James S. Waters, 
 Thomas Winans, 
 Otho H. Williams, 
 William H. Young. 
 
28 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 LETTER OF AOOEPTAT^CE. 
 
 Baltimore, February V^th, 1857. 
 
 To George Pbabody, Esq. 
 
 Bir: — The undersigned acknowledge the receipt of 
 your Letter, addressed to us on the twelfth of this 
 month, and with a grateful sense of this evidence 
 of your confidence and regard, accept the office of 
 Receivers and Dispensers of the Munificent Fund 
 which you therein dedicate to the erection and 
 endowment of an Institute in the City of Baltimore. 
 On behalf of those for whom this great benefaction 
 is designed, we oflPer you most cordial thanks, with 
 our admiration of the noble and generous heart 
 which could conceive and execute so comprehensive 
 a scheme for the improvement and gratification of 
 thousands unknown and unborn. We will endeavor 
 to manifest a just appreciation of our obligations to 
 you, by prompt and unremitted efforts to carry out 
 the views and suggestions contained in your Letter. 
 
LETTERS FROM ME. PBABODY. 
 
 29 
 
 And we earnestly hope you may be permitted, for 
 many coming years, to have the satisfaction of wit- 
 nessing the accomplishment of all you propose and 
 desire, in founding so splendid a monument of enlight- 
 ened Philanthropy and exalted Patriotism. 
 
 Wm. E. Mayhew, 
 John P. Kennedy, 
 Ohas. J. M. Eaton, 
 Thomas Bwann, 
 George Brown, 
 John B. Morris, 
 S. OwiNGs Hoffman, 
 g. w. burnap, 
 Wm. H. D. C. Wright, 
 JosiAS Pennington, 
 Wm. MgKim, 
 David S. Wilson, 
 
 John M. Gordon, 
 Samuel W. Smith, 
 Ohaitnoey Brooks, 
 Wm. F. Murdoch, 
 Enoch Pratt, 
 J. Mason Campbell, 
 Geo. W. Brown, 
 Galloway Cheston, 
 Geo. p. Tiffany, 
 Ohas. Bradbnbaugh, 
 Edw. M. Grbenway, Jr. 
 Wm. 0. Shaw. 
 
30 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Office of Duncan, Sheeman & Co. Bankers, 
 New Yoek, March 11, 1857. 
 
 To Messrs. 
 
 W. E. Mayhew, 
 John P. Kennedy, 
 Chas. J. M. Eaton, 
 Thomas Swann, 
 Geo. Brown, 
 John B. Morris, 
 S. Owings Hoffman, 
 G. W. Burnap, 
 Wm. H. D. 0. Wright, 
 Josias Pennington, 
 Wm. McKim, 
 David 8. Wilson, 
 
 and Wm. 
 
 John M. Gordon. 
 Sam'l W. Smith, 
 Chauncey Brooks, 
 Wm. F. Murdoch, 
 Enoch Pratt, 
 J. Mason Campbell, 
 Geo. W. Brown, 
 Galloway Cheston, 
 Geo. P. Tiffany, 
 Wm. Prescott Smith,* 
 Charles Bradenbaugh, 
 Ed. M. Greenway, Jr. 
 C. Shaw. 
 
 Gentlemen,- — -Mr. George Peabody, of London, has 
 placed in our hands a copy of a letter he addressed 
 to you under date the 17th ulto. the object being 
 to establish and endow an Institute in the City of 
 Baltimore, and to place at your disposal for that 
 purpose three hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 *Wm. Prescott Smith, declined, wliicli vacancy was filled 
 by the election of Wm. H. Keighler, who afterwards resigned, 
 and S. Teackle Wallis was elected. 
 
LETTEES FROM DUNCAN, SHERMAN & 00. 31 
 
 In accordance with his request we now beg to 
 open a credit, on his account, for that sum, (say 
 $300,000,) which amount we hold subject to the 
 cheque of such persons, or their Chairman, acting 
 as a Finance Committee, as you may authorize, by 
 letter to us, to draw for the same, from time to 
 time, in sums as the money may be required to 
 carry out the objects contained in said letter. 
 
 Requesting an acknowledgment of this letter, 
 accompanied by such information as the credit 
 requires, 
 
 We are, gentlemen, with much respect, 
 Your obedient servants, 
 
 DUNCAI^, SHERMAN & CO. 
 
 Office of Duncan, Sherman & Co. Bankers, 
 New York, June 24, 1857. 
 
 Messrs. W. E. Mayhew, John P. Kennedy and 
 others, Baltimore. 
 
 Oeritlemen, — Referring to our letter to you of 
 March 11th last, we have the pleasure to inform 
 you, that Mr. George Peabody has requested us to 
 
32 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 honor your drafts to the amount of three hundred 
 and fifty thousand dollars, (say |350,000,) instead 
 of $300,000, as therein expressed- We now there- 
 fore increase the credit which we then advised you 
 we had opened on his account, to the extent of 
 fifty thousand dollars, (say $50,000,) to be drawn 
 for as stated in our said letter of the 11th March. 
 We have the honor to remain, 
 Your obedient servants, 
 
 DUNOAK, SHERMAN & CO. 
 
 (Europa.) London, October 8, 1858. 
 
 William E. Mayhew, Esq. 
 
 Qhairman Peahody Institute, Baltimore. 
 
 Dear Sir, — In February, 1857, when I made a 
 donation of three hundred thousand dollars, to found 
 an Institute, Library, &c. in Baltimore, I intimated 
 to you that, under favorable circumstances, I might, 
 during my life, make up the sum to half a million 
 of dollars. In May, last year, I added $50,000, 
 and should my life be spared, you will consider 
 
LETTEES FEOM MK. PEABODY. 33 
 
 this letter binding on me to pay the following sums 
 at the periods stated, viz : 
 
 On the opening of the Institute, $25,000 
 One year after the opening, . 25,000 
 Two years after do. . . 25,000 
 
 Three years after do. . . 25,000 
 
 Four years after do. . . 25,000 
 
 Five years after do. . . 25,000 
 
 making in all jive hundred thousand dollars. 
 ' I have thought it advisable to communicate this 
 intention to, you, that the^ Building Committee and 
 others may be regulated in their expenditures ac- 
 cordingly. In the event of my death, a Will, 
 already made, provides amply for the Institute. 
 
 Very respectfully and truly yours, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
 GEOEaETOWW, Ma^s. May 8th, 1866. 
 
 Gentlemen, — Your letter dated. 12th February last, 
 containing copies of a correspondence which had 
 taken place between your Board and the Maryland 
 
34 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Historical Society, reached me a few weeks before I 
 embarked from England. My engagements making 
 preparations to come away prevented an earlier reply, 
 and now as I hope in a few weeks to have the 
 pleasure of seeing you in Baltimore, it will be 
 unnecessary to add anything further, than that I 
 considered your proposal, and have accordingly ad- 
 dressed a letter to the Historical Society, of which 
 I herewith furnish a copy, 
 
 I am with great respect, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
 To the Board of Trustees of the 
 
 Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 New Haven, October 19, 1866. 
 
 To the Trustees of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore. 
 
 Gentlemen, — I have to acknowledge the receipt, 
 from Mr. Pennington, your President pro tern., of 
 your official report of your action hitherto, with the 
 accompanying statement of your Treasurer. 
 
LETTERS FROM MR. PEABODY. 35 
 
 I beg now to say that I have experienced satis- 
 faction and pleasure in reading these documents, 
 and that I am, and indeed have before been, con- 
 vinced that your course has been a wise and pru- 
 dent one in your management of the Institute, and 
 in your postponement of its inauguration and open- 
 ing, under the unhappy circumstances and troubles 
 which have so distracted our country. 
 
 But as you are now about carrying into active 
 operation the plan which the careful thought of 
 these past years has devised, and as I believe that 
 by increasing the means at your disposal I should 
 increase the usefulness of the Institution of which 
 you have charge, I deem this a proper occasion to 
 make, for the same purposes as those expressed in 
 my letter of February 12, 1857, the further gift of 
 Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, which I shall be 
 ready to pay into your hands in a few days. 
 
 When I do so, I may have some suggestions, and 
 possibly some instructions to regulate its future 
 expenditure, and your future action. 
 
 With great respect, I am 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
36 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Baltimore, October 25, 1866. 
 
 George Peabody, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir, — The Trustees of the Peabody Insti- 
 tute, in acknowledging the receipt of your letter of 
 the 19th October, 1866, cannot refrain from express- 
 ing the great gratification they derived from your 
 kind and considerate approbation of their past man- 
 agement of the Institute, and of the postponement 
 of its inauguration to this day. 
 
 That they should obtain your indulgent sanction 
 of their course under peculiar circumstances of em- 
 barrassment and difficulty was all they could have 
 reasonably expected or fairly hoped for. 
 
 That you should have sealed your approbation by 
 adding another princely donation of five hundred 
 thousand dollars to the equally large endowment 
 heretofore made, to enable them therewith "to in- 
 crease the usefulness of the Institute," excites their 
 profoundest gratitude and admiration. 
 
 In the name of the people of Baltimore, and of 
 the countless thousands who shall hereafter reap the 
 benefit of your surpassing liberality and enlightened 
 benevolence, the Trustees tender to you their hearty 
 
LETTERS FROM MR. PEABODY. 37 
 
 thanks and their sincere wishes for your health, hap- 
 piness and prolonged enjoyment of every other bless- 
 ing bestowed upon our race. 
 On behalf of the Trustees, 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 J. PENNINGTON, 
 
 President pro tern. 
 
 Zanesvillb, November 5, 1866. 
 
 To the Trustees of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore: 
 
 Gentlemen: — In regard to the suggestions I 
 intended to make, and which are referred to in my 
 letter of the 19th of October, I will now submit 
 them for your consideration, hoping they will prove 
 useful and agreeably to you under the new order 
 of things, caused by your assuming the whole admin- 
 istrative functions of the Institute. 
 
 One of these matters has been already noticed by 
 you. Prom an examination of the list of two hun- 
 dred names from which my letter of the 12th Peb- 
 6 
 
38 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 ruary, 1857, directs selections shall be made to fill 
 the vacancies occurring in your Board, it is painful 
 to observe how time has wrought its work in lessen- 
 ing the number; and though what remains affords 
 an ample field for the present, the probability is 
 that it must fail, before long, to furnish the supply 
 expected by me ten years ago. I therefore agree 
 at once with you, and recommend that in addition 
 to any names on that list, which are eligible, you 
 obtain from the Legislature the permission to make 
 your selection in future to fill vacancies from the 
 City of Baltimore and State of Maryland. 
 
 It has also been intimated that' the present num-. 
 ber of Trustees composing your Board is larger than 
 is needed for the effective working administration of 
 the Institute. Thence I would propose, if in future 
 a reduction of their number to fifteen (by omitting 
 to fill vacancies that may occur until the number is 
 reduced) may be considered advantageous to its 
 future interests, that you should i be given the discre- 
 tion to make the change, and I authorize you to 
 unite my request in your application to the Legisla- 
 ture for its accomplishment. 
 
 I would mention, besides, that my instructions 
 concerning the departments- of the Academy of Music 
 and Gallery of Art may not fully express the mean- 
 
LETTERS FROM MR. PEABODY. 39 
 
 ing they were intended to convey. With regard to 
 them you will, of course, not understand me as con- 
 templating the establishment of elementary schools. 
 What, I mainly desire and intend to accomplish, 
 through their agencies, is that sort of instruction, 
 under able teachers in the theory and higher branches 
 of music and its kindred arts to be promoted by the 
 Institute, for which, heretofore, there has been no 
 provision in your community, and which students 
 have been obliged to seek abroad. 
 
 And finally, I take leave of the subject with the 
 conviction that all the energies of the Institute will 
 be required for the objects contemplated in its estab- 
 lishment, and that its preservation and usefulness 
 can only be maintained by keeping its buildings, 
 as well as everything else under its control, exclu- 
 sively devoted to its own uses and purposes. 
 I am, with great respect,' 
 
 Your humble servant, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
40 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Georgetown, Mass., May 8, 1866. 
 
 Gentlemen: — I received, before I left England, 
 from the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Institute, 
 copies of the correspondence which had taken place 
 between them and your Society up to the 12th Feb- 
 ruary last, and since my arrival I have seen the 
 printed statement published by your Society, dated 
 5th April. 
 
 After a proper consideration due to the important 
 subject to which those papers refer, I am pained to 
 conclude that there exists insuperable obstacles in 
 the way to prevent that harmony of action and pur- 
 pose which I contemplated in my letter of the 12th 
 February, 1857, founding the Institute that bears 
 my name. 
 
 I am fully aware of your rights in the question 
 at issue, but it is thought by those who understand 
 the subject, that those rights should be relinquished 
 in this case, to carry out a plan, in which I hope 
 will be found my sincere desire to promote the inter- 
 ests of your Society, as well as the benefit to the 
 community which it is the design of the Institute to 
 accomplish. 
 
 I had hoped that I should never have been called 
 upon to interfere by advice or otherwise in the man- 
 
LETTERS FEOM ME,. PBABODY. 41 
 
 agement of the affairs of the Institute, and up to 
 this moment I have declined to do so, but the dif- 
 ference of views being of a nature unfavorable to 
 any arrangement by which your Society and the 
 Trustees can be expected to come together and carry 
 out, harmoniously, two separate administrations, I 
 feel that I am called upon to ask you to do me the 
 favor to decline the acceptance of the part I have 
 assigned to your Society in the Institute in mv letter 
 of the 12th February, 1857. 
 
 It would be a source of extretne and lasting 
 regret to me, if by any disagreement I should be 
 disappointed in my intention to fulfil one of the chief 
 purposes of my visit to my native land, at this 
 time, and as my arrangements to do so will mainly 
 depend on your decision, you will greatly oblige me 
 if you will reply to me here, and also to send a 
 copy of it to the Board of Trustees at as early a 
 moment as will be convenient to yourselves. 
 
 I have also sent a copy of this letter to them. 
 I am with great respect, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY. 
 
 To the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 The request in this letter was complied with by a resolution 
 of the Society, passed at its meeting, 24th May, 1866. 
 
DEED, ACT OF INCOEPOKATION, 
 
 AMEI^DMENT OF CHARTER, BY-LAWS, 
 
 LIBRAEY ORGAISTIZATIOK 
 
DEED. 
 
 Whereas, on the twelfth day of February, in the 
 year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 
 fifty-seven, I addressed to William E. Mayhew and 
 others a letter, of which a copy is hereto annexed, 
 and made part hereof, and it has been thought advi- 
 sable that I should, by an instrument more formal, 
 pepetuate the views and purposes entertained by me 
 in regard to the establishment of an Institute in the 
 City of Baltimore. 
 
 Now, therefore, it is hereby witnessed that I, 
 George Peabody, heretofore of the City aforesaid, 
 do by these presents ratify and confirm, in all things, 
 the letter aforesaid, and all and singular, the state- 
 ments therein contained, and do declare that the 
 persons named in said letter, (with the exception 
 of William Prescott Smith, who has declined to 
 give his co-operation in the premises,) their asso- 
 ciates and successors, shall hold the moneys therein 
 designated to have been given them, as the same 
 may be, by them, received from me, and any 
 further sums which I may appropriate in this behalf, 
 in trust, for the erection, endowment, and perpetual 
 7 
 
46 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 maintenance, in the City of Baltimore, of an Insti- 
 tute, of the character so by me designated, and to 
 be held, owned and managed by them, in the man- 
 ner, and pursuant to the directions, which are at 
 large set forth in the letter aforesaid. 
 
 And, in addition to, but not in derogation of, 
 said directions, I do hereby further declare that if, 
 from any cause whatever, of which my said Trustees, 
 their associates and successors, shall be the e^xclusive 
 judges, there shall be a failure on the part of the 
 Maryland Historical Society to undertake or prose- 
 cute the functions which I have indicated in my 
 letter, as hereafter to be confided to it, then, and 
 in that event, and unless they see fit to assume 
 these functions themselves, I hereby declare it to be 
 the duty of my said Trustees, their associates and 
 successors, and they are hereby authorized to select 
 some other agency competent, in their judgment, to 
 carry out my views in the premises. 
 
 And I do hereby further declare and direct, that 
 my said Trustees, if they think fit shall be and 
 they are hereby fully empowered to procure them- 
 selves, their associates and successors to be incorpo- 
 rated under the authority of the State of Maryland; 
 but care shall be taken, in that event, that the suc- 
 cession to and government of the trust, so as afore- 
 
DEED. 47 
 
 said created by me and the ends and aims which I 
 thereby contemplate, and the means of their attain- 
 ment, shall be kept and observed inviolate, as I have 
 in the letter aforesaid, and by this instrument set 
 forth and ordained. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand 
 and seal, at the City of Charleston, this fourth day 
 of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 eight hundred and fifty-seven. 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY, [Seal.] 
 
 Be it remembered, and it is hereby certified, that 
 on this fourth day of March, A. D. 1857, before 
 me, William Porcher Miles, the Mayor of Charles- 
 ton, personally appeared George Peabody, Esq., the 
 party executing the foregoing instrument of writing, 
 and acknowledged the same to be his Act and Deed. 
 In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand 
 and the seal of the City, on the day and 
 ( SEAL 1 year first above mentioned. The word Peb- 
 I PLACE, i ruary on the preceding page being first 
 erased, and March substituted therefor. 
 
 Wm. Poeohee Miles, Mayor. 
 Received to be recorded the 16th day of June, 
 1857, same day recorded in Charter Record, E. D. 
 No. 3, folio 186, &c. and examined 
 
 Per Edward Dowling, Qlerk. 
 
AN ACT 
 
 TO INCOEPOEATE THE 
 
 PEABODY IJifSTITUTE OF THE 
 CITY OF BALTIMORE. 
 
 The Charter of the Peabody Institute was granted 
 by the Legislature of Maryland, by Act of Assembly, 
 passed March 9th, 1858, chapter 209, as follows: 
 
 Preamble. WhEKEAS, GeOEGE PeABODY, Esq., of 
 
 London, formerly of Baltimore, has recently 
 made a munificent donation for the purpose 
 of founding an Institute in the City of Bal- 
 timore, the design and objects of which are 
 set forth in a letter from Mr. Peabody, to 
 certain persons therein named, of which the 
 following is a copy. 
 
 [The letter, which is copied at length in 
 the I charter, is not here inserted, as it is 
 contained in a pamphlet printed by John D. 
 
ACT OF INCOKPOEATION. 49 
 
 Toy, in 1857, for the Trustees of the Pea- 
 body iDstitute.J 
 
 And whereas, the list of two liundred Preamwe 
 names, referred to in the foregoing letter is 
 contained in another letter from Mr. Pea- 
 body to certain persons therein named, of 
 which the following is a copy. 
 
 [Mr. Peabody's second letter is not here 
 inserted, as it is contained in full in said 
 pamphlet.] 
 
 And whereas, the trust created by said Preamble 
 letter, first above recited, was duly accepted 
 by all the persons to whom said letter was 
 addressed, except William Prescott Smith, 
 Esq., as appears by the reply of those so 
 accepting, of which the following is a copy. 
 
 [Said letter of acceptance is not here in- 
 serted, as it is contained in full in said 
 pamphlet.] 
 
 And whereas, said Greorge Peabody, deem- Preamble 
 
 . . continued. 
 
 mg it advisable to perpetuate by a more 
 formal instrument than said letter first above 
 
50 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Preamble rccited, his views and purposes in relation 
 to said Institute, by deed dated the fourth 
 day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty- 
 seven, and recorded among the Charter 
 Records of the City of Baltimore, in Liber 
 E. D. No. 3, folio 186, &g., did expressly 
 ratify and confirm in all things said letter, 
 and all and singular the statements therein 
 contained, and did make said letter a part 
 of said deed, and did declare and provide 
 that the persons named in said letter, with, 
 the exception of William Prescott Smith, 
 Esq., who declined to accept the trust by 
 ^ said letter created, their associates and suc- 
 cessors should hold the* moneys in said letter 
 designated to have been given, as the same 
 might by them be received, and any further 
 sums which he, the said Peabody, might 
 appropriate in trust for the erection, endow- 
 ment and perpetual maintenance in the City 
 of Baltimore, of an Institute of the character 
 in said letter designated, and to be held, 
 owned and managed by them in the manner, 
 and pursuant to the ..directions therein set 
 forth. And whereas, in addition to, but not 
 in derogation of said directions, the said Pea- 
 body, by said deed further declared, that if 
 
ACT OF INOOEPOEATION. 51 
 
 from any cause whatever, of wliic}i said Preamwe 
 
 rr, . ii • • I ^ continued. 
 
 Irustees, tneir associates and successors 
 should be the exclusive judges, there should 
 be a failure on the part of the Maryland 
 Historical Society to undertake or prosecute 
 the functions which he, the said Peabody, 
 had indicated in his said letter, as there- 
 after to be confided to it, then and in that 
 event, and unless they should see fit to 
 assume those functions themselves, the said 
 Peabody declared it to be the duty of his 
 said trustees, their associates and successors, 
 and they are thereby authorized to select 
 some other agency, competent in their judg- 
 ment to carry out his views in the premises. 
 And whereas, the said Peabody, by said 
 deed further declared and directed that his 
 said Trustees, if they should think fit, should 
 be and they are thereby fully empowered to 
 procure themselves, their associates and suc- 
 cessors, to be incorporated under the author- 
 ity of the State of Maryland, and that care 
 should be taken, in that .event, that the suc- 
 cession to and government of the trust, so 
 as aforesaid created by him, and the ends 
 and aims which he thereby contemplated, 
 and the means of their attainment, should be 
 
52 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Preamble kept and observed inviolate, as set forth in 
 said letter, and the above recited provisions 
 of said deed. 
 
 And whereas, William H. Keighler, Esq., 
 has been duly chosen in place of William 
 Prescott Smith, Esq., who declined, as afore- 
 said; And whereas, for the purpose of carry- 
 ing out effectually the design of Mr. Pea- 
 body, and of perpetuating and forever pre- 
 serving, for the benefit of future generations, 
 the noble institution which he has founded, 
 a special Act of Incorporation is necessary 
 and proper; therefore, 
 incorpo- Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General 
 Assembly of Maryland, That William E. 
 Mayhew, John P. Kennedy, Charles J. M. 
 Eaton, Thomas Swann, George Brown, John 
 B. Morris, S. wings Hoffman, G. W. Bur- 
 nap, William H. D. C. Wright, Josias Pen- 
 nington, William McKim, David S. Wilson, 
 John M. Gordon, Samuel W. Smith, Chauncey 
 Brooks, William F. Murdoch, Enoch Pratt, 
 J. Mason Campbell, George W- Brown, Gal- 
 loway Cheston, George P. Tiffany, Charles 
 Bradenbaugh, Edw. M. Greenway, Jr., Wil- 
 liam C. Shaw and William H. Keighler, be 
 and they are hereby incorporated by the 
 
 rated 
 
ACT OF INCOEPOBATION. 53 
 
 name of "The Peabody Institute of the City 
 of Baltimore," and said persons and their 
 successors shall constitute a Board of Trus- 
 tees, twenty-five in number, of said Insti- 
 tute, to be maintained in perpetual succes- 
 sion, and shall l^ave all the powers of a body 
 corporate, necessary or proper, to accomplish 
 and carry out the purposes for which said 
 Institute is designed, as declared and set 
 forth in said letter of said George Peabody, 
 first above recited, and in the clauses and 
 provisions above recited, of said deed of said 
 Peabody. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That May pass 
 said Board of Trustees shall have the power 
 to make all necessary or proper by-laws, 
 and to alter or repeal the same at pleasure, 
 and to fill up by election all vacancies which 
 shall occur in their body, so that the num- 
 ber of twenty-five Trustees shall always be 
 preserved. 
 
 Sbo. 3. And be it further enacted, That Authorized 
 said Board shall have the power to acquire property, 
 by purchase or otherwise, and to hold in and 
 by said corporate name of "The Peabody 
 Institute of Baltimore," and for the purposes 
 thereof, property, real, personal and mixed, 
 
54 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 and to convey and transfer the same at 
 pleasure. 
 Exempted gBO. 4. And he it further enacted, That 
 
 from taxa- 
 
 tion. all property which said Institute shall ever 
 
 hold or possess, shall be free and esempt 
 
 from all taxation of the City of Baltimore 
 
 and the State of Maryland. 
 
 Banking Qj;o_ 5_ j^y^^ jg {I further enacted, That 
 
 privileges 
 
 prohibited, nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
 
 confer banking privileges on said Peabody 
 Institute. 
 
 Value of Sec. 6. And he it enacted, That the in- 
 
 real estate 
 
 not to vestments in real estate, by said Peabody 
 Institute, authorized by this Act, shall not 
 exceed in amount six hundred thousand dol- 
 lars. 
 
 exceed 
 $600,000. 
 
A SUPPLEMENTAL ACT 
 
 TO INOOKPOEATE THE 
 
 PEABODY II^STITUTE OF THE 
 CITY OF BALTIMORE. 
 
 CHAPTER 339. 
 
 A 8upple7nent to AN ACT entitled, an Act to Passed 
 incorporate the Peabody Institute of the City ^"'"^^ ^• 
 of Baltimore, passed on the 9th day of March, 
 eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two 
 hundred and nine. 
 
 Whereas, at the request of George Pea- preamble, 
 body, Esquire, the founder of the Peabody 
 Institute of the City of Baltimore, the Mary- 
 land Historical Society, by a resolution 
 thereof, passed on the twenty-fourth day of 
 May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, re- 
 scinded its acceptance of the trust in refer- 
 ence to said Institute, which had been re- 
 posed in said Society by Mr. Peabody; and 
 whereas, the performance of all the functions 
 of the Institute has been assumed by the 
 
56 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Preamble Trustees thereof, and has devolved on them, 
 and Mr. Peabody has subsequently increased 
 the funds of said Institute to one million of 
 dollars by a recent munificent donation of 
 five hundred thousand dollars; and whereas, 
 various persons originally named by Mr. 
 Peabody in his letter of the fourteenth of 
 February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, 
 printed in the Charter of said Institute, as 
 eligible to fill vacancies occurring in the 
 Board of Trustees thereof have died, and it 
 is desirable that a large and unrestricted 
 choice should be given to said Trustees in 
 filling vacancies which now exist or may 
 occur in their body; and whereas, Mr. Pea- 
 body has expressed a desire that the Charter 
 of said Institute should be altered as herein 
 provided, in order to conform to the altered 
 condition of its affairs ; therefore. 
 
 Board of Section 1 . Be it enacted hy the General 
 Assembly of Maryland, That the Board of 
 Trustees of the said Institute, if they shall 
 find that the number of twenty-five Trustees 
 is larger than is needed for the effective and 
 advantageous administration of the Institute, 
 may reduce the number to fifteen by omit- 
 ing to fill vacancies which may from time 
 
SUPPLEMENTAL ACT OF INCOEPOEATION. 57 
 
 to time occur in the Board, and when so 
 reduced the number of Trustees shall always 
 thereafter consist of fifteen. 
 
 Beg. 2. And be it enacted, That all va- vacancies 
 
 to be filled. 
 
 cancies in the Board, now existing or which 
 may hereafter occur, may be filled by the 
 Board by the election of any person or per- 
 sons residing in the City of Baltimore or 
 State of Maryland, who, in the judgment of 
 the Board, may be suitable and qualified for 
 the oifice. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That, whereas, ^ame of 
 
 Institute. 
 
 the name of such Institute is in one place 
 in said Charter incorrectly printed, the pro- 
 per name of said Institute is the "Peabody 
 Institute of the City of Baltimore." 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That every- J^epeaied. 
 thing in the Act to which this is a supple- 
 ment relating to the Maryland Historical 
 Society be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be it enacted. That this Act in force, 
 shall take effect from the date of its passage. 
 
 Accepted by Board of Trustees, November 7, 1867. 
 
BY-LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE CITY 
 OF BALTIMOEE. 
 
 The Trustees shall meet on the 12th of Febru- 
 ary, on the first Thursday of April, the first Thurs- 
 day of June, and the first Thursday of November 
 in every year at the Institute, at 12 o'clock, A. M., 
 unless otherwise ordered by the Board; and special 
 meetings may be called at any time by the Presi- 
 dent, Vice-President, or any three Trustees. A 
 quorum for the transaction of business shall consist 
 of seven members, including the presiding officer. In 
 case the 12th of February shall fall on Sunday, the 
 annual meeting shall be on the following day. But 
 any of said regular or special meetings may be 
 continued by adjournment from time to time, by a 
 vote of the members who may be present. 
 
BY-LAWS. 59 
 
 II. 
 
 The officers of the Board shall consist of a Presi- 
 dent, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who 
 shall be elected by ballot at the February meeting 
 in every year, to hold their offices for a period of 
 twelve months, and until their successors are elected. 
 The Board shall also at the annual meeting, or at 
 any other meeting when it shall be deemed neces- 
 sary, elect, or provide for the appointment of, a 
 Provost, Assistant Librarian, and such other officers 
 of the Institute as may be found to be required. 
 The officers thus appointed shall continue in their 
 respective offices for such periods as they may be 
 appointed thereto, and during the pleasure of the 
 Trustees and the incumbents respectively, each party 
 being entitled to reasonable notice of the determina- 
 tion of the other to sever the relation. 
 
 III. 
 
 At the regular meeting in June, the following 
 Committees shall be appointed by the President, 
 each of which shall consist of five members. 
 
 An Executive Committee. 
 
 A Finance Committee. 
 
 A Committee on the Library. 
 
60 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 A Committee on Lectures. 
 
 A Committee on the Academy of Music. 
 
 A Committee on the Gallery of Art. 
 
 A Committee on Premiums. 
 
 A Law Committee. 
 
 A Committee on Accounts. 
 
 Said Committees shall serve for twelve months, 
 and until their successors are appointed. Vacancies 
 in Committees shall be filled by the President. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The President shall take the Chair at all meet- 
 ings, and exercise the usual functions of such an 
 officer, including the appointment of all Committees, 
 except in cases where the Trustees shall otherwise 
 direct. 
 
 V. 
 
 The Vice-President, in the absence of the President, 
 shall have all the powers and perform all the duties 
 of the President. 
 
 VL 
 
 The Secretary shall have the custody and care of 
 all the records, deeds and other papers of the Trus- 
 tees. He shall give special notice of all meetings. 
 
BY-LAWS. 61 
 
 He shall keep full and accurate minutes of the pro- 
 ceedings of each, meeting, and record them in sub- 
 stantial books, to be provided by him for the 
 purpose, and at each meeting the minutes of the 
 preceding meeting shall be read. The Secretary or 
 the Provost may open all letters addressed to the 
 Trustees or to the. Institute. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The Treasurer shall take into his custody the 
 money and securities of the Institute and account 
 for and disburse them in accordance with these By- 
 Laws, and such orders as may be made by the 
 Trustees from time to time. He shall deposit all 
 moneys received by him in some bank or banks in 
 this City, to be selected by the Trustees, and they 
 shall only be drawn out by his check, on the proper 
 voucher corresponding thereto, signed by the Provost, 
 and the Chairman of the Committee, or in his absence, 
 by some member thereof, for which the use of the 
 money is required, and in accordance with the appro- 
 priation made by the Trustees for the purpose. He 
 shall make quarterly reports to the Trustees. 
 
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62 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 No moneys shall be paid for any purpose except 
 in pursuance of specific appropriations made by the 
 Trustees, or except by Committees, the Provost or 
 other officer of the Institute acting in pursuance of 
 instructions given by the Trustees. But the Com- 
 mittees on Lectures, on the Gallery of Art, and on 
 the Academy of Music, shall place in the hands of 
 the Provost, to be disbursed by him for the use of 
 their respective departments, all moneys received 
 from the sale of tickets of admission, and fi-om 
 tuition in art and music, of which as earnings of 
 the said Committees he shall render a separate 
 account to the Treasurer from time to time during 
 the season of the current year. And for all moneys 
 appropriated by the Trustees for the use of the said 
 Committees respectively, and also for the use of the 
 Committee on the Library, which shall be drawn 
 for in the form required as declared in Section 19 
 of these By-Laws, the Provost shall make to the 
 Trustees at each regular meeting, a report, stating 
 in separate accounts for each Committee the amount 
 of the same received and expended by him. 
 
BY-LAWS. 63 
 
 IX. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall have the general 
 charge and supervision of such affairs of the Insti- 
 tute as are not confided to other Committees, and of 
 such as are specially entrusted to it, and it shall be 
 their duty to recommend from time to time such 
 plans to the Trustees as in their judgment it would 
 be advisable to adopt. The charge of the purchase 
 of furniture, of repairs of building, and of the ordi- 
 nary expenditure of the business of the Institute 
 shall belong to this Committee. 
 
 X. 
 
 The Finance Committee shall have the power at 
 all times to examine the accounts and securities of 
 the Treasurer and Provost, and to prohibit any 
 application or use of the funds which they may 
 deem unauthorized by the Trustees. At the meeting 
 in June in each year, after an examination of all 
 the stock and securities held by the Institute, they 
 shall report thereon, and give their opinion whether 
 or not any change of investments is advisable ; and 
 all investments shall be made by the Treasurer under 
 their direction in pursuance of the instructions of the 
 Trustees. 
 
64 
 
 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 XL 
 
 The Committee on the Library shall have the 
 general charge and supervision of the Library and 
 Beading Room, and the management and care 
 thereof, including the purchase of books and periodi- 
 cals. 
 
 XII. 
 
 The Committee on Lectures shall have the gen- 
 eral charge and supervision of the lectures, including 
 the subjects and courses of lectures to be given and 
 the lecturers to be appointed. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 The Committee on the Academy of Music shall 
 have the general charge and supervision of the 
 Academy of Music, and the management and care 
 thereof, including the concerts to be given and the 
 instruction to be furnished. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 The Committee on the Gallery of Art shall have 
 the general charge and supervision of the Gallery of 
 Art and management and care thereof, including the 
 
BY-LAWS. 65 
 
 purchase of models and works of art, the exhibitions 
 to be given and the instruction to be furnished. 
 
 XV. 
 
 The Committee on Premiums shall have charge of 
 the distribution of Premiums to the High Schools 
 and the School of Design. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 The Law Committee shall consider and report 
 upon any question requiring legal advice, and have 
 charge generally of the law business of the Institute. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 The Committee on Accounts shall examine and 
 ■report upon the quarterly accounts of the Treasurer 
 and Provost, and any other accounts requiring ex- 
 amination by the Trustees. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 The Provost shall be the general executive officer 
 of the Institute, and shall have the management of 
 every department thereof, under the direction of the 
 several Committees and the Trustees. He shall, 
 under such direction, have control over all the other 
 executive officers of the Institute, shall keep an 
 
66 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 accurate account of all moneys received and dis- 
 bursed by him, and shall at the regular meetings, 
 and at all other times when required, render to the 
 Trustees a full statement of his accounts, and at the 
 meeting in June shall make a report of the condi- 
 tion of every department, with such suggestions for 
 correction and improvement as his experience may 
 enable him to make. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 All bills or accounts for the payment of money 
 by the Treasurer, excepj; such as shall be specially 
 ordered to be paid by the Trustees, shall be first 
 examined by the Provost and signed by him and 
 the Chairman of the Committee, or in his absence, 
 by some member thereof, for whose use the expen- 
 diture is made. In the absence of the Provost, the 
 approval of the President or Secretary shall be sufii- 
 cient. 
 
 XX. 
 
 At all regular meetings of the Trustees the order 
 
 of business after calling the roll shall be as follows: 
 
 I. Reading the Minutes of the preceding meeting. 
 
 II. Unfinished business from the preceding meeting. 
 
 III. Report from the Treasurer. 
 
BY-LAWS. 67 
 
 IV. Report from the Provost. 
 
 V. Reports from the Committees in the following 
 order : 
 
 1. The Executive Committee. 
 
 2. The Finance Committee. 
 
 3. The Committee on the Library. 
 
 4. The Committee on Lectures. 
 
 5. The Committee on the Academy of Music. 
 
 6. The Committee on the Gallery of Art. 
 
 7. The Committee on Premiums. 
 
 8. The Law Committee. 
 
 9. Committee on Accounts. 
 10. Special Committees. 
 
 VI. Other business. 
 
 The usual parliamentary rules shall govern the 
 deliberations of the Trustees, and, upon the demand 
 of any one Trustee, the vote upon any proposition 
 shall be taken by yeas and nays, and the yeas and 
 nays recorded. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 These By-Laws shall not be abrogated or altered 
 except by resolution offered at one and acted on at 
 the next succeeding meeting of the Trustees. 
 
 These amended By-Laws were adopted November 19, 1867. 
 
REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Committee on the Library beg leave to sub- 
 mit the following Report: 
 
 They have found in the consideration of the ques- 
 tion relating to the organization of the Library 
 referred to them, that at the present time, they 
 cannot advance farther in the treatment of the sub- 
 ject, than to submit to the attention of the Board a 
 few fundamental propositions, which they deem it 
 necesssary to be agreed upon as the basis upon 
 which the Library shall be commenced. 
 
 If these propositions shall meet the concurrence 
 of the Board, the Committee may then proceed to 
 an examination of the subordinate points proper to 
 be adjusted for the more full development of the 
 plan upon which the Library is to be constructed. 
 
 The Committee are of the opinion that the means 
 presumed to be at the disposal of the Board for the 
 establishment of the Library render it advisable that 
 the first distribution of funds for this purpose should 
 
EEPOET OP LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 69 
 
 be regulated with a view to a Library of Fifty- 
 Thousand volumes. 
 
 That the selection of the Books proper to a Li- 
 brary of the size contemplated shall be made by the 
 Committee, with such aid as they may be able to 
 derive from sources open to their consultation and 
 co-operation. 
 
 That in adjusting the character and number of 
 Works to be assigned to each branch of science and 
 literature in a library of the size contemplated, they 
 shall adhere scrupulously to" such an allotment as 
 shall impart to the Library the character of a gen- 
 eral and comprehensive collection of science and 
 literature, exhibiting as far as the limits prescribed 
 to the plan will allow, the standard works in each 
 branch of science adapted to the illustration of its 
 present state of advancement, and also exhibiting 
 within the same limits the most approved works of 
 what is understood to be literature as distinct from 
 science. 
 
 That special attention be directed to the most 
 approved collections of history through the most 
 authentic works in that department of knowledge, 
 embracing in the scope of this direction the mate- 
 rials of history as they exist in published Archives, 
 
 Memoirs, Biographies, Treatises and Pamphlets. 
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70 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 That the plan of the Library as above proposed 
 shall also include a due and proper proportion of 
 works of Philosophy as distinguished from physical 
 and abstract science, works pertaining to personal 
 biography and narrative, discourse and oratory, a 
 selection of works of fiction of established merit, 
 both in prose and poetry, and works generally known 
 under the designation of classics. 
 , The Committee submit the foregoing views to the 
 Board as presenting the questions upon which they 
 deem it proper to have an early determination, 
 reserving to themselves a further report hereafter 
 upon such subjects in connection with the establish- 
 ment and arrangement of thd" Library as in the 
 progress of their duty they may find occasion to 
 submit. 
 
 [Details of appointment of Librarian, preparation 
 of a catalogue of books to be purchased, salaries, &c. 
 omitted.] 
 
 For the present, therefore, they recommend to the 
 adoption of the Board the following Resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That the several propositions relating to 
 the establishment and character of the Library pre- 
 sented in the above report of the Library Committee 
 be accepted by the Board, and the Committee be 
 -authorized and directed to proceed in the dutj'- as- 
 
EITLES AND REGULATIONS OF LIBEAEY. 71 
 
 signed to them, in conformity with the plan laid 
 down in the same. 
 
 Adopted by the Board of Trustees, April 5, 1860. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 FOE THE 
 
 GOVERNMEIsrT OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 Agreeably to Mr. Peabody's Letter, the Library 
 is to be kept for, reference only, in the building, and 
 the circulation of books is prohibited. 
 
 The Library shall be open for the free use of all 
 persons who may desire to consult it, every day in 
 the week except Sunday, Christmas, New Year's 
 Day, Washington's Birth Day, Grood Friday, the 4th 
 of July, and such other holidays as shall be recom- 
 mended by the proper authorities, at such hours and 
 according to such rules and regulations as the Com- 
 mittee on the Library may establish. 
 
 The Librarian shall have the general superintend- 
 ence, under the direction of the Library Committee, 
 
72 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 of all the books, periodicals, maps, charts, manu- 
 scripts, engravings and stationery of the Institute, as 
 well as control over his Assistants and other persons 
 employed in or about the building; but he shall 
 neither engage nor discharge them without the con- 
 sent of the Committee. He ^shall report, without 
 delay,- any neglect of duty on their part, or misde- 
 meanor in the building. 
 
 He shall examine all bills and accounts, and col- 
 late them with the articles furnished and every 
 volume of books purchased, to ascertain whether it 
 be perfect in printing, paging, and binding before 
 authorizing the payment of any accounts for the 
 same. 
 
 He shall register, in classed and alphabetical Cata- 
 logues, all books of the Library, label each volume 
 with the stamp, mark each volume properly, and 
 arrange them all on appropriate shelves. 
 
 He shall enter into the Accessions' Book all works 
 before they are placed on the shelves, enumerating 
 all the particulars as prescribed in that book. 
 
 Books donated or bequeathed, shall be entered in 
 the Accessions' Book in red ink. He shall also 
 write the name of the donor on the flv-leaf of the 
 volume, and make an acknowledgement of the gift 
 in behalf of the Institute. 
 
RULES AND EBGIJLATIONS OF LIBEAEY. 73 
 
 He shall purctase no books or other articles for 
 the Institute, or make any engagement for binding 
 or other work, without the consent of the Committee. 
 
 He shall, at least once a year, examine the whole 
 Library to ascertain its condition, and have the books 
 cleansed from all dust and other impurities. 
 
 He shall, as often as may be necessary, collect 
 the accumulating pamphlets, periodicals, serials, and 
 unbound or mutilated volumes, and submit a list of 
 them to the Committee, who shall determine the 
 disposition of them. 
 
 He shall keep a daily record of the number of 
 readers and of the general subjects of books con- 
 sulted or asked for, and shall make an Annual 
 Report to the Committee (or as often as may be 
 called for) of them, as well as on the increase, 
 wants, and condition of the Library. 
 
 He shall have charge of the correspondence relat- 
 ing to, the business of the Library. 
 
 He shall make a monthly statement of his ac- 
 counts to the Committee. 
 
 He shall be present in the building during the 
 hours in which the Library shall be open to the 
 public, and before leaving in the evening, shall per- 
 sonally see that all proper precautions are taken- for 
 the security of the property. 
 
 Adopted by the Board, February 12, 1862. 
 
OIROULAE. 
 
 The Board of Trustees having directed that the 
 Reading Room should be open in the evening, as 
 soon as the collection of Books in the Library would 
 be sufficient to be of service to the community, 
 the Committee on the Library beg leave to inform 
 you that the Reading Room has been opened in the 
 evening since the 2d ^November last, and that the 
 hours of free admission are from 9 A. M. to 4 P. 
 M. and from 7 P. M. to 10 P. M. every day, except 
 Sundays and Holidays, under the same rules and 
 regulations as have been established for day admis- 
 sion. 
 
 Without entering into details of its classification, 
 the collection of Books on the shelves, amounting to 
 over 24,000 volumes, though but a beginning, in- 
 cludes a fair proportion of selected works in all de- 
 partments of knowledge, not usually found in private 
 collections. Intended to supply the wants of readers 
 in all walks and professions, additions are being care- 
 fully, and as rapidly made, as is consistent with a 
 
CIECULAE. 75 
 
 proper regard for its healthful growth and practical 
 use, as the Library of Reference described in the 
 letter of its munificent Founder. 
 
 You are respectfully requested to avail yourself of 
 the invitation here presented, and to make its claims 
 and advantages known to those within your influ- 
 ence, if you consider them deserving your approval. 
 If you will suggest the title of any valuable work 
 needed by you, and that you will recommend to be 
 purchased for the Library, the Committee will be 
 glad to receive it, addressed to Mr. N. H. Morison, 
 Provost of the Institute. 
 
 Chaelbs J. M. Eaton, 
 J. Pennington, 
 Keveedy Johnson, Jr. 
 Geoege W. Dobbin, 
 Charles Howard, 
 
 Committee on the Library. 
 
 Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 
 December, 1867. 
 
Dedication Ceeemoi^ties. 
 
 10 
 
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. 
 
 TUXTSTEES. 
 
 EDWAED M. GREENWAY, Jb. 
 JOSEPH GUSHING, Je. 
 GEORGE P. TIFFANY. 
 
 COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION. 
 
 GEORGE WM. BROWN, 
 GALLOWAY CHESTON, 
 THOMAS WHITRIDGE, 
 REVERDY JOHNSON, Jr. 
 CHAUNCEY BROOKS, 
 JOHN B. MORRIS, 
 SAMUEL W. SMITH, 
 WM. F. MURDOCH, 
 S. T. WALLIS, 
 CHARLES HOWARD, 
 THOMAS DONALDSON. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 I 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Trustees on the 1st 
 of November, 1866, the Executive Committee were 
 instructed to collect and publish in pamphlet form 
 Mr, Peabody's speeches, the Addresses of Governor 
 Swann, and Mr. Kennedy, and the other proceedings 
 at the Dedication of the Institute. 
 
 It was desirable that these papers, which are to 
 be found in the following pages, should be published 
 at the moment, and in a form separate from any 
 preceding or subsequent event in the history of Mr. 
 Peabody's noble gift to our City. But circumstances 
 arising to cause considerable delay in obtaining cor- 
 rections in the preparation of the papers, it was 
 thought better to postpone the printing of them until 
 other documents could be prepared, so as to have 
 them all bound together in one volume, with Mr. 
 Peabody's letters relating to the foundation of the 
 Institute, the Deed, Act of Incorporation, and Amend- 
 ment of Charter, the amended By-Laws, the organi- 
 zation of the Library, and the letter of the Vice- 
 President of the Board to Mr. Peabody, with the 
 
80 PEABODY IHSTITUTE. 
 
 Treasurer's general financial statement, thus com- 
 pleting a full account of the affairs of the Institute 
 up to the 1st January, 1868. 
 
 The building of the Institute fronts on Mount 
 Vernon Place, in the centre of which rises the mar- 
 ble column of the Washington Monument. It is 
 constructed of the same kind of white marble from 
 the vicinity of Baltimore, and was commenced in 
 the spring of 1858 and completed in 1861. The 
 plan contemplates its extension to double its present 
 dimensions. The preparations for its dedication 
 having been made to harmonize with Mr. Peabody's 
 arrangements, a deputation of the Trustees pro- 
 ceeded to Philadelphia to receive him and his friends 
 and inform them of the .programme that had been 
 adopted. A special car was provided for their use 
 by the Philadelphia and Wilmington Rail Road 
 Company, and they were met at the Susquehanna 
 River by the Board of Trustees of the Institute. 
 On their arrival in the City, Mr. Peabody was 
 received by the Mayor and City Council as the 
 Guest of the City, and escorted to Barnum's Hotel. 
 
 On Thursday, the 25th October, 1866, the cere- 
 monies of the dedication took place in the Lecture 
 Hall of the building, where Mr. Peabody delivered 
 the address now published. 
 
PEBFACE. 81 
 
 On Friday he received the children of the Public 
 Schools, (estimated twenty thousand in number,) as 
 they passed in procession before him on the steps of 
 the Institute, when he made them the address also 
 included in this volume. 
 
 On Saturday, accompanied by the Mayor and City 
 Council, he received the citizens generally in the 
 Hall of the New Assembly Rooms. 
 
 He attended Dr. Backus' Church on Sunday, and 
 left the City to go to Ohio on Monday morning. 
 
 It is pleasant to record the fact that during Mr. 
 Peabody's stay in the City, not the most trifling 
 occurrence happened to cause disappointment, or to 
 prevent a full participation and enjoyment to all, in 
 the interesting occasion of which these papers are 
 intended to preserve a history. The whole com- 
 munity seemed to be moved by a controlling desire 
 to manifest their hearty welcome and reapect, as 
 well as their grateful appreciation to the City's 
 Benefactor. 
 
 Charles J. M. Eaton, 
 
 GrEOEGE W. Dobbin, 
 
 Enoch Peatt, 
 
 Wm. MoKim, 
 
 J. Mason Campbell, 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 
PEA Y ER. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Backus, of the First Presbyterian Church, 
 offered the' following prayer: 
 
 Almighty and most merciful Jehovah, we adore 
 Thee as God over all, blessed forever. Thou uphold- 
 est and guidest all things by the word of Thy power. 
 Thine, Lord, is the greatness and the gloty and the 
 majesty. With reverence we bow before Thee. 
 
 Assembled this morning to inaugurate this Insti- 
 tute, which has been reared by benevolent hands, 
 for the promotion of science and art, and the improve- 
 ment and enjoyment of this community, we desire 
 humbly to invoke Thy gracious presence, guidance 
 and benediction. In all our undertakings we would 
 acknowledge that our dependence is upon the Lord, 
 who made heaven and earth. "Except the Lord 
 build the house, they labor in vain that build it." 
 Do Thou, therefore, prosper this work of our hands. 
 
 We thank Thee, that Thou hast put it into the 
 mind and heart of Thy servant, whom thou hast so 
 
PRAYER. 83 
 
 highly blessed and prospered, to employ so large a 
 portion of the talents entrusted to him, in securing 
 the well-being and happiness of this community; 
 that, allured from grosser pleasures and inferior pur- 
 suits, they may seek that intellectual and moral im- 
 provement, which may tend to their true elevation, 
 refinement, usefulness and pleasure — binding them 
 together in social harmony and unity, making this 
 city a centre of increasing light and purity, and exert- 
 ing a happy influence throughout the land. 
 
 May he be spared to see the ripe fruits of his 
 noble and generous benefactions, experience the satis- 
 faction of having been in Thy hands the instrument 
 of lasting good to his race, and receive not only the 
 gratitude of those who shall enjoy the benefits of this 
 Institute through coming ages, but also be replenished 
 with the richest blessings of Thy providence and 
 grace, so that his declining years may be full of peace 
 and hope and joy. And when he has accomplished his 
 work on earth, may he be gathered to his fathers, 
 full of honors, enjoying the respect of mankind, peace 
 of conscience, and an abundant entrance into the 
 kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And 
 may numbers rise up, not only to call him blessed, 
 but also to imitate his example. 
 
84 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Give wisdom to those to whose management this 
 Institute has been entrusted — preside over all their 
 deliberations and measures — may harmony ever pre- 
 vail in their councils — let no root of bitterness spring 
 up to trouble and distract them — let nothing mar or 
 interrupt the usefulness of the trust committed to 
 them — but may it prove a fountain of light, purity 
 and blessedness in this city, and fulfil the highest 
 wishes of its benevolent founder — and we will give 
 all praise to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy 
 Ghost. Amen. 
 
GOV. SWAI^^I^'S ADDEESS. 
 
 Mr. Peabody: 
 
 I AM here to-day, by the invitation of the Trustees 
 of the Peabody Institute, with whatever of official 
 significance my presence may be expected to convey, 
 to extend to you a cordial welcome to the State of 
 Maryland. We receive you, sir, not as a stranger. 
 Your early life was commenced here in this City, 
 partly in our State. The sympathies and associa- 
 tions, contracted here, have followed you throughout 
 life. In the financial crisis of 1837, which spread 
 over this whole Union, affecting more or less almost 
 every State within our limits, when we required 
 countenance and support abroad, you, sir, stood the 
 fast friend of the State of Maryland [applause], and 
 by your efforts, by the weight of your great name, 
 pointed us to that career of prosperity and success 
 in the management of our financial affairs which has 
 placed us to-day, I will not say in advance, but by 
 the side of the most prosperous of our sister States. 
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86 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 For this, Mr. Peabody, the State of Maryland owes 
 you a debt of gratitude. [Applause.] And I consider 
 myself fortunate that this opportunity is afforded me, 
 in the presence of this vast audience here assembled, 
 to make this acknowledgment, due to the important 
 services rendered to our State. [Applause.] The 
 occasion which brings you here to-day has been ap- 
 pointed by the Trustees of this Institution, at the 
 earliest convenient period after your return to the 
 country. We are here, sir, to make a report of what 
 has been accomplished in the management of that 
 great endowment which you have conferred upon the 
 people of this City, and indirectly, upon the whole 
 State. And we are here, to announce to you that 
 this great Institution is now ready to enter upon the 
 work of practical development in the great cause of 
 human advancement, which it was your purpose to 
 accomplish in the letter of instructions which you 
 placed in the hands of the Trustees entrusted with 
 this charge. It is not my purpose, Mr. Peabody, to 
 go into a history of what has been accomplished or 
 what is proposed to be done in the future by those 
 to whom you have confided this trust. That task 
 will be performed by another. I cannot, however, 
 forego the pleasure with which I would ask to be 
 permitted to refer to one passage in that letter of 
 
GOVERNOR SWANN's ADDRESS. 87 
 
 instructions to which I have alluded, as singularly- 
 appropriate at this particular time. "I must not 
 omit," you say in that letter to the Trustees, "to 
 impress upon you a suggestion for the go.vernment 
 of the Institute, which I deem to be of the highest 
 moment, and which I desire shall be ever present 
 with the Board of Trustees. My earnest wish to 
 promote at all times a spirit of harmony and good 
 will in society, my aversion to intolerance, bigotry 
 and party rancor, and my enduring respect and love 
 for the happy institutions of our prosperous Republic, 
 impel me to express the wish that the Institute I 
 have proposed to you shall always be strictly 
 guarded against the possibility of being made the 
 theatre for the dissemination or discussion of secta- 
 rian theology or party politics. [Great applause.] 
 That it shall ' never manifest in any manner what- 
 ever a support to political dissensions and to vision- 
 ary theories, and the infidelity of a pretended phi- 
 losophy, which may be aimed at the subversion of 
 the approved , morals of society ; that it shall never 
 lend its aid or influence to the propagation of opin- 
 ions tending to create or encourage sectional jeal- 
 ousies in our happy country, [applause,] all which 
 may tend to the alienation of the people of one 
 State or section from, those of another. But that it 
 
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 shall be so conducted throughout its whole career 
 as to teach political and religious charity, toleration 
 and benevolence, and prove this to be in all contin- 
 gencies and conditions the true friend of our esti- 
 mable Union, of the salutary institutions of free 
 government, and of liberty regulated by law. I 
 enjoin these precepts upon the Board of Trustees and 
 the exercise forever of their invincible observance 
 and enforcement in the administration of the duties 
 I have confided to them." I am here, sir, to say 
 to you that these sentiments meet a response from 
 the people of the State of Maryland, and we give 
 tliem our cordial endorsement. In discharging the 
 duty which has been assigned to me by the Trus- 
 tees, a pleasing duty, — I cannot forego the pleasure I 
 feel on this occasion in assuring you of my profound 
 personal respect for your character. Your career has 
 been one of uninterrupted prosperity. In all the 
 business of life you have adorned by your honesty 
 and straightforwardness every position in which you 
 have been placed. And no man, Mr. Peabody, 
 whether living or dead — in this country, or any coun- 
 try — has attracted a larger share of the public atten- 
 tion by works of disinterested charity and benevolence. 
 [Applause.] You have not lived for yourself alone. 
 Two hemispheres attest your princely liberality. Ee- 
 
GOVERNOR SWANn's ADDRESS. 89 
 
 tiring to your native country, after so many years' 
 absence, crowned with all the honors that human 
 applause can bestow upon a private citizen, not ex- 
 cepting the applause of royalty itself. I feel proud, 
 standing within the walls of this noble Institution, 
 the work of your own hands, for which we are 
 indebted to your unaided liberality, to say, sir, 
 that I speak here to-day, not only the sentiments 
 of the vast crowd before me, but of the whole State 
 of Maryland, when I assure you, that in honoring 
 George Peabody, we honor ourselves. [Applause.] 
 
MR. PEABODY'S RESPOls'SE. 
 
 YouB Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 I THANK you most kindly for the honor which 
 the Governor of Maryland has done me in the sen- 
 timent which he has expressed; and I thank you, 
 ladies and gentlemen, for the enthusiasm which you 
 have been so kind as to manifest at the mention 
 of my name. [Enthusiastic applause.] The Governor 
 of Maryland has referred to the assistance which he 
 gives me the credit of performing thirty years ago, 
 or more, for the resuscitation, in some measure, of 
 the credit of the State of Maryland. The same com- 
 pliment was yesterday paid me by the Mayor and 
 Councils in reference to the same subject. I will 
 therefore only say to you that what I did at that 
 time, any pledge that I ever made at that time, 
 has been fully sustained by the State of Maryland 
 throughout the duration of that time. 
 
 It is upwards of half a century since I came from 
 Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, where I had 
 
ME,, pbabody's response. 91 
 
 for some time been in business, to reside in this city. 
 I was then but twenty years of age, and commenced 
 business in company witb Mr. Elisha Riggs, of George- 
 town, at 215 J Market street, then called "Old Con- 
 gress Hall," and there it was that I gained the first 
 $5,000 of the fortune with which Providence has 
 crowned my exertions. From that period for twenty 
 years of my life, though a New England man, and 
 though strong prejudices existed even at that time 
 between the Northern and Southern States, I never 
 experienced from the citizens of Baltimore anything 
 but kindness, hospitality and confidence. 
 
 It would, then, be strange indeed if I were . not 
 deeply attached to Baltimore; and from the time of 
 which I have spoken to the present moment I have 
 ever cherished the warmest and most grateful feelings 
 towards the inhabitants of this beautiful city, where 
 I entered upon a business career which has been so 
 prosperous. 
 
 And although I have lived abroad for more than 
 thirty years, under the Government of a Queen, who 
 is beloved, not only in her own realms, but throughout 
 all civilized countries, and who has bestowed upon me 
 very high honor, yet my appreciation (warm though 
 it is) of kindness and honor bestowed upon me in 
 .England has never effaced the grateful remembrance 
 
92 PEABODY INSTITtTTE. 
 
 and warm interest which I must ever connect with 
 the home of my early business and the scene of my 
 youthful exertions. 
 
 I am, therefore, glad to meet you here — to stand 
 again where I can look upon the scenes which recall 
 so many memories of my younger days — and still 
 more glad to receive from you this warm greeting, 
 the token that my course of life has met with your 
 approbation. 
 
 But yet I come to you now, in some degree, with 
 a saddened heart, at finding that nearly all my early 
 acquaintances in Baltimore have left the stage of life, 
 and /am left so nearly alone among them all, and, 
 in lately looking over a list of the principal import- 
 ing merchants of Baltimore (headed by Alexander 
 Brown & Son and George and John Hoffman,) attached 
 to a circular addressed to our shipping merchants in 
 Europe, dated fifty-one years ago, and containing 
 ninety-three firms, composed of one hundred and 
 forty-five names, I can now trace out as living but 
 seven persons, of whom I am. one. And having but 
 once before visited my native land in thirty years, I 
 feel now as if addressing a community to whom I am 
 personally almost wholly unknown, and as if I were 
 standing here a relic of past years, and addressing a 
 generation to which I do not myself belong. 
 
MR. peabody's response. 93 
 
 But my interest both in the present and in future 
 generations is, I trust, not less than in that which 
 has passed or is passing away; the fathers of many 
 of you who hear my voice were among my intimate 
 friends, and thus situated, I hope I may not be pre- 
 suming in what I shall have to say. 
 
 Since my last visit, nearly ten years ago, many 
 and great changes have taken place. I then had the 
 pleasure of expressing my regard for this city, and 
 my desire for the good of its future citizens by the 
 establishment of the Institution in which I am now 
 addressing you. I could then hardly expect to live 
 to address you here at this time, but God has been 
 pleased to prolong my years beyond the three score 
 and ten allotted to man, and to enable me to carry 
 out at this time the views I then entertained with 
 regard to the operations and benefits of this Institu- 
 tion. 
 
 With the details of the scheme and organization 
 of the Institute I do not propose to interfere. I am 
 fully confident that I leave them in the hands of 
 those who are devoted earnestly, and even enthusias- 
 tically, to devising and carrying out such plans as 
 will, for all coming time, work for the highest good 
 and culture of those for whom its benefits were in- 
 tended. But I am sure you will pardon me, my fel- 
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94 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 low-citizens, if on one point to which Governor Swann 
 has eloquently alluded — the spirit of harmony in 
 which all should be carried out — I speak a few words, 
 coming as they do from the very depths of my heart, 
 and appealing to you, you the people of Baltimore, 
 with whom rests the success or failure of this Institute. 
 For, as years advance, and what were forebodings for 
 the future have become merged in tha past, the ear- 
 nest desire for unity and brotherly feelings which I 
 cherished and expressed ten years ago, in the terms 
 referred to by the Governor of Maryland, has become 
 deeper and more intense. It is my hope and prayer 
 that this Institute may not only have and fulfil a mis- 
 sion in the fields of science, of art and of knowledge, 
 but also one to the hearts of men, teaching always 
 lessons of peace and good-will, and especially that 
 now it may in some humble degree be instrumental 
 in healing the wounds of our beloved and common 
 country, and establishing again a happy and harmo- 
 nious Union — the only Union that can be preserved 
 for coming ages, and the only one that is worth pre- 
 serving. And here I may well refer to a subject 
 which, though of a personal nature, has its bearings 
 on what I have said. I have been told several times 
 that I have been accused of want of devotion to the 
 Union, and I take this occasion to place myself right. 
 
ME. pbabody's response. 95 
 
 for I have not a word of apology, not a word of 
 retraction to utter. 
 
 Fellow-citizens, the Union of the States of America 
 was one of the earliest objects of my childhood's 
 reverence. For the independence of our country my 
 father bore arms in some of the darkest days of the 
 Revolution, and from him and from his example I 
 learned to love and honor that Union. Later in life 
 I learned more fully its inestimable worth, perhaps 
 more fully than most have done, for born and edu- 
 cated at 'the North, then living nearly twenty years 
 at the South, and thus learning in the best school 
 the character and life of her people, finally in the 
 course of a long residence abroad, being thrown in 
 intimate contact with individuals of every section of 
 our glorious land, I came, as do most Americans who 
 live long in foreign lands, to love our country as a 
 whole, to know and take pride in all her sons as 
 equally countrymen — to know no North, no South, 
 no East, no West. — And so I wish publicly to avow 
 that during the terrible contest through which the 
 nation has passed, my sympathies were still and 
 always will be with the Union, that my uniform 
 course tended to assist but never to injure, the credit 
 of the Government of the Union, and at the close of 
 the war three-fourths of all the property I possessed 
 
96 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 had been invested in United States Government and 
 State securities, and remain so at this time. 
 
 But none the less could I fail to feel charity for 
 the South ; to remember that political opinion is far 
 more a matter of birth and education than of calm 
 and unbiased reason and sober thought. Even you 
 and I, my friends, had we been born at the South, 
 born to the feelings, beliefs, and perhaps prejudices 
 of Southern men, might have taken the same course 
 which was adopted by the South, and have cast in 
 our lot with those who fought, as all must admit, so 
 bravely for what they believed to be their rights. 
 Never, therefore, during the war or since, have I 
 permitted the contest, or any passions engendered by 
 it, to interfere with the social .relations and warm 
 friendships which I had formed for a very large 
 number of the people of the South. I blamed, and 
 shall always blame, the instigators of the strife and 
 sowers of dissension, both at the North and at the 
 South. I believed, and do still believe, that blood- 
 shed might have been avoided by mutual concilia- 
 tion. But after the great struggle had actually com- 
 menced I could see no hope for the glorious future 
 of America, save in the success of the armies of the 
 Union ; and in reviewing my whole course, there is 
 nothing which I could change if I would, nor which 
 
MR. pbabody's response. 97 
 
 I would change if I could. And now, after the 
 lapse of these eventful years, I am more deeply, 
 more earnestly, more painfully convinced than ever, 
 of our need of mutual forbearance and conciliation, 
 of Christian charity and forgiveness, of united effort 
 to bind up the fresh and broken wounds of the 
 nation. 
 
 To you, therefore, citizens of Baltimore and of 
 Maryland, I make my appeal, probably the last I 
 shall ever make to you. May not this Institute be a 
 common ground, where all may meet, burying former 
 differences and animosities; forgetting past separa- 
 ^ tions and estrangements ; weaving the bands of new 
 attachments to the City, to the State and to the Na- 
 tion. May not Baltimore, her name already honored 
 in history, as the birth-place of religious toleration in 
 America, now crown her past fame by becoming the 
 day-star of political tolerance and charity, and will 
 not Maryland, in place of a battle-ground for oppos- 
 ing parties, become the field where milder counsels 
 and calm deliberations may prevail ; where good men 
 of all sections may meet to devise and execute the 
 wisest plans for repairing the ravages of war, and 
 for making the future of our country alike common, 
 prosperous and glorious, from the Atlantic to the Pa- 
 cific, and from our Northern to our Southern boundary. 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 
 
 An address of The Trustees of the Peabody 
 Institute was prepared by their President, Hon. 
 John P. Kennedy, to be delivered at the Inaugura- 
 tion of the Institute which was expected to take 
 place in the month of May, 1866. In accordance 
 with the expressed wish of Mr. Peabody, the Inau- 
 guration was postponed until the 25th October, 1866. 
 In the meantime events occurred to render it neces- 
 sary to modify certain portions of Mr. Kennedy's 
 original address. His absence in Europe prevented 
 him from delivering it in person on the day last 
 named, when it was read by George W. Dobbin, 
 •Esq., on behalf of the Trustees, modified as follows: 
 
 That man is to be envied for a great good for- 
 tune who having acquired wealth, has also received 
 from nature the gift of a generous ambition which 
 persuades him to make his wealth the hand-maiden 
 of an honorable fame. There are but few men, 
 amongst those educated to any appreciation of intel- 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 99 
 
 lectual excellence, who do not sometimes dally with 
 the thought of leaving some memorial behind them 
 by which they may secure more or less of a kind 
 memory after they are gone. It is the instinctive 
 utterance of the nobleness of our nature that whis- 
 pers, even to the humblest of us, the desire to be re- 
 membered when we are absent. We seldom ascend 
 to the belfry of a village church that we do not 
 find initials carved on the wood, or names scrawled 
 in pencil on the walls to solicit our notice to the 
 fact that some casual visitor who had arrived there 
 before us desired our approbation of his own exploit 
 in having attained to such an elevation. Many 
 work in the spirit of pure selfishness to set their 
 insignificant egotisms before the eyes of posterity : but 
 many work with an equally pure unselfishness to 
 confer a benefaction, desirous that the deed alone 
 shall live, and conscious of a pleasure in the thought 
 that a good work shall survive to show a future 
 generation that it had a benefactor in the past. 
 Buch men use the faculty God has given them for 
 the improvement of the world, according to their 
 means; — if they can do no more than plant a tree 
 by the road side, or open a fountain for the thirsty 
 wayfarer, or remove a stone from his path. These 
 are the natural aspirations of our humanity towards 
 
100 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 a posthumous life: — the longing of the spirit to live 
 in companionship with the generations that succeed 
 the present. 
 
 How full are our lives of good intentions ! How 
 few of us have the nerve, the industry and the zeal 
 to carry these intentions into good deeds ! We dream 
 of things we might do, resolve to do them, halt be- 
 fore every shadow of obstruction, and find, when our 
 race is run, that procrastination has eaten out the 
 heart of our enterprise. There are many men of gen- 
 erous disposition, of intelligent perception and esti- 
 mate of the needs of the society to which they belong, 
 of ample means and honest inclination to use them 
 in some signal scheme of social advantage, who hav- 
 ing lived through their whole compass of active life 
 in daily postponements till to-morrow, take refuge, 
 at last, against the reproaches of their conscience, in 
 a testamentary injunction to their heirs to do what 
 they have so long neglected. There are others, 
 whom a kind Providence sometimes sends to bless 
 our race — both as an aid and an example to support 
 and encourage our struggle towards a more perfect 
 life, — who are so wise to discern the necessities of 
 humanity, so gifted with the means to supply them, 
 and, at the same time, so happily endowed with a 
 sense of the luxury of indulging in acts of well 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 101 
 
 doing, that they seem to be favored with a special 
 mission to scatter blessings in the pathway of their 
 own generation, and to sow the seeds of a perpetual 
 harvest of good fruits for the generations to come. 
 
 We are assembled to-day to dedicate to the public 
 use the work of a man who holds, by the universal 
 verdict of his country a preeminent position in that 
 rare and happy company : a man who was not content 
 to die and leave behind him an inventory of frus- 
 trated intentions, nor to allow his heirs to deprive him 
 of the first enjoyment of the pleasure of that good- 
 giving and good-doing which had become the habit 
 and the necessity of his nature! 
 
 We account it to be our good fortune to-day, that 
 by an auspicious coincidence, the ceremonies of this 
 inauguration are to be illustrated and hereafter to be 
 rendered more memorable, by the actual presence and 
 participation of our patron and friend. 
 
 In the month of February, 1857, Mr. Peabody 
 announced to this community, through a letter, bear- 
 ing date on the 12th of that month, addressed to 
 twenty-five of his friends, whom he desired to act as 
 Trustees, the plan of an Institute which it was his 
 wish to establish in this City, in pursuance, as he 
 
 said, of a purpose he had long entertained, and which, 
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102 FEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 he hoped, might "become useful towards the improve- 
 ment of the moral and intellectual culture of the 
 inhabitants of Baltimore, and, collaterally to those of 
 the State; and, also, towards the enlargement and 
 diffusion of a taste for the Fine Arts." In another 
 part of the same letter, he gives utterance to an aspi- 
 ration, which briefly, but significantly, expresses the 
 benevolent scope of his project, and his confidence in 
 its success, — that it might be found, "both in the 
 influence of its example, and in the direct adminis- 
 tration of its purpose, a long, fruitful and prosperous 
 benefaction to the good people of Baltimore." 
 
 It is more than nine years since that generous 
 message was delivered at our doors; and it is only 
 now that the enterprise, which it so hopefully de- 
 scribed, has come to this the first stage of its devel- 
 opment for public presentation. The project has 
 made but slow progress through the greater part of 
 that nine years; it has halted in weary delay and 
 lingered in a sad silence. In that interval mournful 
 changes have come, both in the internal construction 
 of the Board of Trustees, and in the outward public 
 conditions which were necessary to be regarded in the 
 prosecution of the labor confided to them. Six of 
 the original members of the Board have disappeared 
 in obedience to that irreversible command which will 
 
ADDEBSS OF THE TRUSTEES. 103 
 
 come, in due time, to each and all who are left to 
 do the work of to-day. The vacant chairs have been 
 filled, but, amongst the survivors, separations, scarcely 
 less solemn than those made by death, have prevented 
 free and cordial counsel ; and, indeed, our whole com- 
 munity during more than half of this interval, has 
 lived in such feverish contests of opposing tempers, 
 opinions and interests, as to render hopeless the 
 benign works of peaceful enterprise. 
 
 The long agony, we trust, is over, and a better 
 day has come at last. The strife of five years, 
 steeped in the carnage and desolation of a civil war 
 of such bitterness as history never before recorded — 
 hellwm plusquam civile — has come to an end, and 
 the frightened propriety of national and social life 
 is creeping back to the old homesteads, and all good 
 men and women are praying, once more, for union 
 and harmony. Let us cheer ourselves with the hope 
 that this new peace is a true herald of good to come, 
 and that it brings its heavenly gift of healing on its 
 wings. 
 
 It is in this first breathing space after the dread- 
 ful shock of arms, that we have invited our fellow- 
 citizens to partake in the celebration of the opening 
 of the Institute, and to add a new pleasure to the 
 happy change in our public affairs, by the dedication 
 
104 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 of this house to an exposition of the beneficence of 
 an establishment whose teachings we may hope, 
 shall forever be devoted to the promotion of the 
 happiness and grandeur of our country. 
 
 The annals of Baltimore, ever since Baltimore could 
 boast the honors of a City, exhibit no act of private 
 munificence, no act of associated philanthropy, nor, 
 perhaps even of public official benefaction, which, in 
 the scope of its design of usefulness to the commu- 
 nity, or in the prodigal generosity of the means con- 
 tributed to its accomplishment, may claim the admi- 
 ration and gratitude of our citizens by a merit so 
 clear and unquestionable as The Institute which 
 George Peabody this day offers to the City. An 
 endowment, amounting to a million of dollars, has 
 been appropriated to the establishment and comple- 
 tion of a broad and permanent structure of public 
 education, which when brought to its full develop- 
 ment, is destined to become the well-spring of pe- 
 rennial and profuse bounty to many generations of 
 the people of Baltimore and Maryland. 
 
 The stately edifice in which we are now assem- 
 bled is but the first flower of this noble design. A 
 great part of the work is not yet even begun. 
 When the whole is finished, the Institute will stand 
 in this apex of the City, the fairest of the buildings 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 105 
 
 that adorn its triple hills. Here, in the centre of 
 the most beautiful City landscapes, its majestic figure, 
 reposing at the foot of the matchless column which 
 symbolizes the immortality of the Father of Our 
 Union, it will be the second object to challenge the 
 admiration of the passing stranger; whilst it will 
 ever attract the veneration and gratitude of our own 
 people and the thousands of their descendants, who, 
 through the lapse of years, shall be privileged to fre- 
 quent its halls and draw from its wells of living 
 water exhaustless draughts of wisdom and virtue. 
 Still more distinctly will it stand a cherished monu- 
 ment to perpetuate in the affection of our posterity 
 the enviable memory of a patriot who served his 
 country with imperial munificence. Let us add, it 
 will stand for ages as the memorial of a good man 
 whom Providence had blessed with a prosperity 
 almost as lavish as his virtue ; with a renown almost 
 as rare as his wise appreciation of the true use of 
 riches. 
 
 The idea, partially developed in the growth of 
 the Institute up to its present stage, of a plan of 
 popular instruction which should embrace every thing 
 most useful in science and most attractive in art, 
 we have already intimated, had been, for some time, 
 before the public announcement of it, a favorite con- 
 
106 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 ception of its author. We shall have occasion pre- 
 sently to notice the various objects contemplated in 
 this organization and to indicate the agencies by 
 which they are to be brought into active service for 
 the benefit of the public. We may, in a general 
 reference to the scope of the whole scheme, say that 
 it has an aim and magnitude no less generous than 
 to establish, within the pale of a perpetual corpo- 
 rate authority, an organization of material power and 
 intellectual resources adapted and directed to the 
 indoctrination of the community — and by that word, 
 we mean not the community of this City and State 
 only, but of our country — in the learning, morals, 
 arts, taste, accomplishment and skill that lift up na- 
 tions to the height of the most virtuous and elegant 
 as well as the most powerful civilization. 
 
 We should perhaps best designate this scheme 
 according to its true character, if we call it a design 
 to establish a University adapted to the conditions 
 indispensable to the cultivation of a taste for science 
 and letters in the adult population of a large city. 
 It will not conform to the common conception of a 
 University, which is supposed to consist of an aggre- 
 gate of colleges, professorships and scholars system- 
 atically employed in a regular career of teaching and 
 study according to a prescribed usage and formula: 
 
ADDEESS OF THE TEXJSTEES. 107 
 
 but it may claim the character of an organized cor- 
 poration whose means are to be employed in afford- 
 ing opportunities for the acquisition of all kinds of 
 knowledge attainable by the teachings of books, the 
 expositions of learned men and the study of artistic 
 design. 
 
 We propose to begin where the ordinary college 
 known to our traditional systems of education termi- 
 nates its instruction. It is not our purpose, except 
 under some favorable conditions which we shall here- 
 after notice, to attempt a regular routine of study 
 through which to conduct our classes in an annual 
 circuit. All that belongs to preliminary or ele- 
 mental education, we suppose,, for the most part, to 
 be done befoee our student comes to us; or, if not 
 done, that it has been pretermitted, either for want 
 of opportunity or means, or inclination, and that he 
 comes to our Institute to be instructed in whatever 
 he has the leisure to acquire; or the ambition to 
 pursue, and which we are able and have appointed 
 to teach. 
 
 The world of science, or,^-to use Mr. Oarlyle's 
 more homely and more comprehensive phrase, — the 
 world of things "knowable" has grown very wide 
 and infinitely various in this Nineteenth Century. 
 We have, for some time past, been obliged to relin- 
 
108 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 quish the conceit of attaining to that universal 
 knowledge, which so much excited the imagination 
 and the industry of our ancestors. 
 
 We are driven to the study of Summaries, Re- 
 views and Encyclopedias for our general information, 
 and of special Sciences or select Literature for our 
 distinctive personal pursuits. The library of any 
 one language in Christendom is more than a life- 
 time labor to explore, and the daily profusion of the 
 press in productions of the highest genius and most 
 valuable knowledge throws the most ambitious book- 
 worm into blank despair when he attempts to keep 
 himself abreast with the march of intellect, as 
 marked out by the army of his contemporaries. We 
 are, therefore, driven to choose for ourselves special 
 studies, and to pursue them with what means are at 
 hand and within our reach. If we can read a good 
 book which we are sure will teach us the best that 
 is known on its subject; if we can hear a good 
 course of lectures from an authentic teacher who will 
 place us au courant with the accepted and approved 
 notions and facts of the time, we do as much as we 
 can hope to do, and we satisfy ourselves with the 
 thought that we are doing our duty, and are ele- 
 vating the general estimate of education in the 
 society to which we belong. 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. ' 109 
 
 Now, it is to furnisti these opportunities for vari- 
 ous study and to familiarize science, letters and art 
 to the perception of the community — to give a good 
 chance to all who desire to know more and better 
 things than they knew before, and to excite and 
 feed a love of knowledge and study in the heart of 
 the country, by supplying the means of intellec- 
 tual culture, that our tJniversity, modeled on this 
 new idea of miscellaneous supply adapted to the 
 various tastes and pursuits of the people, is estab- 
 lished. 
 
 The general character or outline of our plan has 
 been given to the world in Mr. Peabody's letter of 
 the 12th of February, 1857, to which we have re- 
 ferred. Without repeating what is described in that 
 letter as the instructions to the Trustees, we shall, 
 as briefly as we can, endeavor to explain the purpose 
 contemplated by the organization which is there 
 directed to be made of The Institute. 
 
 The instruction supplied by The Institute is de- 
 signed to be communicated through four departments 
 of administration: 
 
 A Library; 
 
 A School op Lectures; 
 
 An Academy of Music; 
 
 A Gallery of Art. 
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no PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 The prominent and fundamental characteristic of 
 this organization is its adaptation to the diffusion 
 of knowledge through the ■ voluntary application of 
 such portions of the community as may be inclined 
 to seek it. It is the aim of the founder of The 
 Institute to put the volunteer student in possession 
 of every facility to aid his studies in whatever de- 
 partment of letters or science his inclination or his 
 interest may lead him to choose. These advantages, 
 it is also the purpose of the founder, to confer upon 
 the student, in great part, without charge or ex- 
 pense, or, at most, at a rate of expense no higher 
 than may be necessary to prevent improper intru- 
 sion and secure good order and decorum. In the 
 general review of these divisions of The Institute, 
 we are first brought to notice 
 
 THE LIBRARY. 
 
 This constitutes the most prominent object in the 
 construction of The Institute, exhibiting to the eye, 
 even at the present time, in its early stage of accu- 
 mulation, a very attractive collection of valuable 
 works. The selection of these volumes, now amount- 
 ing to some fifteen thousand, has been diligently 
 pursued by the Board of Trustees during the last 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. Ill 
 
 five years, through all the difficulties and obstruc- 
 tions thrown in' their way by the unhappy condition 
 of the public affairs, by the very unfavorable rates 
 of foreign exchange, and by the burdensome restric- 
 tions of a high system of domestic taxation. The 
 prices of books, from these causes have been so 
 much increased, that it became a matter of obvious 
 necessity and discretion to make our purchases as 
 small as the object we had in view would allow. 
 What we have achieved, therefore, in this enter- * 
 prise, may, perhaps, be entitled to the commendation 
 of a prudent industry, and should at least save the 
 Board from some of that censure which an impa- 
 tient public have occasionally indulged. 
 
 The scope of the collection to which the Board 
 is now directing its attention covers a catalogue of 
 fifty thousand volumes, which will complete what 
 may be described as the first section or instalment of 
 the Library. This section is intended to exhibit an 
 aggregate of science and literature as these are illus- 
 trated by the most eminent and authentic writers 
 whose works are best known and most generally 
 accepted at the present time. * It is, in a restricted 
 sense, designed to be complete in itself. We mean 
 by this, that this section will embrace, as far as it 
 is capable of doing so, the entire circle of science. 
 
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 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 art and letters, as kno'wn to the philosophy and 
 literature of this age, — comprehending in its compass 
 what is understood as the standard works on all 
 subjects, and those productions in the field of general 
 literature which have come, by the sufirage of 
 scholars, to be distinguished as classics. 
 
 When this division is finished upon the plan we 
 have described, a second section will be undertaken 
 and a digested catalogue be prepared as a guide to 
 the purchase. 
 
 This section will be an amplification of the first, 
 bringing in many valuable works in the same de- 
 partment of science and literature, supplementing 
 that first collection by Treatises, Histories and Phi- 
 losophies gathered from the stores of other nations, 
 and enriching our collections by the learning and 
 labor of past ages, thus giving the materials for a 
 survey of the growth and progress of learning in its 
 career towards its present development. 
 
 A third section will be specially directed to the 
 rare and curious products of scholarship, and to the 
 miscellaneous treasures which opportunity, chance 
 and the luxury of our ever teeming and busy press, 
 throw in the way of The Institute. 
 
 You will perceive from this sketch of the plan 
 of the Library, that many years must elapse before 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TEUSTBES. 113 
 
 it may be expected to reach the dimensions and 
 character we have assigned to it. A yearly appro- 
 priation will be indispensable, not only to make up 
 the complement of the present requisitions which 
 our catalogue demands, but also to furnish, what 
 will always be more in request, and perhaps more 
 intrinsically useful, ■ the constantly increasing volume 
 of contemporary literature and science. 
 
 The Library is the natural appurtenance to the 
 Lecture Room, and from which it will derive its 
 most assiduous students. Our second department, 
 therefore, presents to us a very prominent organiza- 
 tion of a system of instruction by 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF LECTURES. 
 
 From the earliest times in the annals of public 
 education down to the present day, teaching by 
 Lectures has been regarded as the most attractive 
 and efficient means of impressing upon the mind of 
 the student the facts and principles of almost every 
 kind of knowledge. In the scheme of The Institute 
 we give it the place of our first and most active 
 agency, and we regard our arrangement and provision 
 for various courses of periodical lectures as the basis 
 of the most useful and popular service of The Insti- 
 tute. 
 
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 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Through the orderly and permaneat administra- 
 tion of this department every science may be taught, 
 not only to the extent of its adaptation to the pop- 
 ular comprehension, but also, to such zealous stu- 
 dents as may seek it, even up to its most recondite 
 conditions. In this theatre, if the hopes of the 
 founder be realized, there will be supplies, at various 
 seasons as opportunity may offer, masterly exposi- 
 tions of all the chief subjects of human knowledge 
 which constitutes the intellectual wealth of our coun- 
 try. 
 
 It will be our aim, in the first place, to establish 
 certain select courses of lectures on the most useful 
 sciences and arts, which shall be prosecuted through 
 a defined series extending over one or more seasons, 
 and which shall be adapted, as nearly as the dispo- 
 sition of our students may enable us to do so, to a 
 prescribed circle of studies, upon the accomplishment 
 of which we may be able to confer a diploma. 
 
 The lectures of this class will, we hope, be spe- 
 cially devoted to the education of the more ambi- 
 tious and studious of our people, and particularly 
 of those arriving on the verge of manhood, who 
 desire to excel in that kind of knowledge which 
 may be turned to good account not only for the 
 student, but also for the service of society. The 
 
ADDEBSS OF THE TETJSTEES. 115 
 
 principal topics"' of these lectures would be Geometry 
 and Mathendatics, Architecture and Design, Chem- 
 istry, Engineering, Technology and Mechanics, and 
 othe)' sciences of the same practical character. 
 
 In this course there would be little of what is 
 generally understood to be popular lecturing. It 
 would be a course, rather, of grave study, which 
 we hope would rouse the emulation of young men 
 who desire to qualify themselves for the important 
 and profitable duties that belong to the practice of 
 what may be called the scientific professions of civil 
 life. It would be pleasant to see this course of lec- 
 tures established as a fundamental purpose of The 
 Institute, and so commended to the ■ community by 
 its useful results as to ensure a regular and persis- 
 tent attendance on one or two nights of every 
 week, through the appointed season of each year, 
 of a large class who would enter the course with a 
 resolution to pursue their studies to the end, and to 
 earn the diploma of The Institute. 
 
 Apart from this regular circle or series of lec- 
 tures to be repeated every year, we propose to or- 
 ganize a continuous exhibition of lectures of another 
 kind, which, to the general public and especially to 
 our older population and more educated classes, will 
 
116 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 be much more interesting, and to them perhaps more 
 instructive. 
 
 In this department of the plan, we propose to 
 obtain from the very highest sources which our 
 means and the opportunity of the time may enable 
 us to command, a continuous supply of lectures 
 which shall r9,nge over the whole field of literature 
 and science, and which shall present to the fre- 
 quenters of this hall every attraction that may be 
 found in the discourse of eminent teachers who have 
 made their several themes a special study, and 
 who can bring to their exposition of them the ad- 
 vantages of careful and skilful preparation. These 
 lectures will be given in courses of various extent: 
 Some of ten or twelve — some of half that number — 
 many, perhaps, where the subject is of limited scope, 
 may be given in a single lecture. 
 
 In this field our lectures will, by turns, bring us 
 through the circuit of the physical sciences — astron- 
 omy, geology, natural history, the varieties and con- 
 ditions of animal life; in short, all the divisions of 
 that material world whose forms and qualities are 
 open to the scrutiny of human observation. Here 
 will be taught the history of our race, the nature 
 and destiny of man, the theories of his moral sen- 
 timent, his obligations and duties, the jurisprudence 
 
ADDEESS OP THE TRUSTEES. 117 
 
 of nations, forms of government. We should fatigue 
 your attention by the attempt to give even an out- 
 line of the diversity of topics which may be illus- 
 trated here. It is only /necessary to say that the 
 lecture is a means of instruction as boundless in its 
 scope as human speech, and is certainly the most 
 popular of all the agencies employed in imparting 
 knowledge. 
 
 The several lectures of every season will be ar- 
 ranged some months in advance of their delivery, 
 and the lecturers will, where that is practicable, be 
 engaged, and the period of their engagement be 
 designated, sufficiently long before the opening of 
 the season to allow an extensive notice of the 
 arrangement to be communicated to the public, in 
 order that those who desire to attend may be ap- 
 prised in time to prepare for it. 
 
 THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 
 
 The third department of The Institute is The 
 Academy of Music. This exists as yet only in 
 expectancy. The building necessary to this depart- 
 ment is not begun. 
 
 It was a favorite thought in the conception of 
 our good friend, Mr. Peabody, — this of bringing to 
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118 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 the aid of the great purpose of his Institute the 
 hland and refining influences of that art which has 
 been called the humanizer of the possessor of all 
 other arts. Here music has for the first time in 
 our country been brought into a system of educa- 
 tion, as a co-ordinate element to hold an equal 
 rank with the other teachings of the University. 
 We believe, in no other institution of note amongst 
 us has music been assigned a seat in such alliance 
 with philosophy. It is reviving the thought and 
 practice of classic Greece, and carries us back to the 
 Republic of Plato and the Academy of Athens. 
 Let us hope and pray that the benign inspiration 
 of our Founder may fill the heart of this commu- 
 nity, and make The Academy of Music all that 
 he expects. 
 
 This Academy is as yet, of course, but scantily 
 developed in our plan. So far as the letter of Mr. 
 Peabody discloses the plan — it is intended to be 
 composed of a special membership, which will form 
 something of a separate corporate organization within 
 that of The Institute. This will consist of a large 
 aggregate of subscribers enlisted from the musical 
 talent of our City, and all others of both sexes, 
 who take an interest in the cultivation of music. 
 They will be supplied by The Institute with an 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 119 
 
 appropriately furnished saloon, wtiicli will be the 
 appendage to a concert room, adapted to public 
 exhibition ; and in this saloon will be collected a 
 Library of Music, with musical instruments, and all 
 the adjuncts necessary to the useful intercourse and 
 professional occupation of the members. 
 
 The Concert Hall, which we hope will be of the 
 most ample and approved construction, should be 
 supplied with all the proper accompaniments for the 
 exhibition of the highest art in music. It will be 
 a prime object in the scheme of this Academy to 
 make it the means of impressing upon the commu- 
 nity in Baltimore the value of introducing into the 
 Public Schools a system of instruction in music 
 through all its most scientific grades, as a branch 
 of the education conferred upon their pupils, in order 
 that the latent talent of our population may be 
 brought out and cultivated as a resource of personal 
 advancement to its possessors, and of public benefit 
 to the City. How these ends shall be best accom- 
 plished will be the subject of the peculiar study 
 and design of the Academy after it is organized. 
 At present we can only speak conjecturally of the 
 extent to which this department may be usefully 
 developed. 
 
120 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 THE GALLERY OP ART. 
 
 The fourth and last of the departments is a Gal- 
 lery of Art. This, like the Academy of Music, is 
 yet unprovided for. It will require extensive room 
 in the building, and an effective organization, which 
 must be obtained, in great part, from those who 
 may be connected with its operations. 
 
 The general purpose of this Gallery is to promote 
 the study of Painting and Sculpture and of their 
 kindred Arts of Design, and to train the public 
 taste to a true appreciation of the value of that 
 artistic skill which has won the admiration of man- 
 kind from the earliest ages of civilization, and the 
 full recognition of which has come to be one of the 
 most authentic tests of the refinement of nations in 
 our own day. 
 
 We indulge the hope that it will not be long 
 before our City, through the agency of this depart- 
 ment of The Institute, shall become the resort of 
 the most distinguished artists of our country, who 
 will here be furnished with every aid towards the 
 prosecution of their several studies, that their most 
 ambitious votary could desire. That we shall be 
 able to delight and instruct our community by 
 public exhibitions of painting and sculpture from 
 
ADDBESS OF THE TEUBTBES. 121 
 
 the hands of our own gifted artists, whose numbers 
 already have given them an importance as an influ- 
 ential class in our society, and whose merits have 
 brought them a fame that assigns them an honor- 
 able place beside the most distinguished of their 
 fraternity in Europe. 
 
 In this Gallery will be placed the best specimens 
 of art attainable from the collections of the works 
 of the older masters, and will, as far as the means 
 and the opportunities of the Board of Trustees may 
 permit, be enriched with the most admired works 
 of the artists of the present day, and especially of 
 those of our own land. 
 
 The formation of such a Gallery as we have de- 
 scribed, you will perceive, is necessarily the work 
 of time. It can only grow by slow accretion. But 
 every year, we may hope, will add to its treasures; 
 and, being once securely established on a permanent 
 foundation, it will, doubtless, become the depository 
 of occasional private eontributions, conferred by be- 
 quest or given by the friends of art who may be 
 animated by something of the spirit that makes the 
 founder of The Institute the subject of the grateful 
 affection of his country. 
 
 We have given you in this review an outline of 
 The Institute as designed by its author. It is 
 
122 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 suiEcient to show you how comprehensive is the 
 scheme, how various will be its purposes when it 
 is completed and brought into full activity, and how 
 useful, how bountiful in good results, how influen- 
 tial in forming the character of our community it 
 may become if diligently, faithfully and intelligently 
 administered. You will note that we have desig- 
 nated it as a University. You will perceive in the 
 description we have given you, such ample breadth 
 and variety of faculty in the scheme, as to convince 
 you that it only depends upon the fidelity of its 
 management to make it the most extensive and pro- 
 bably the most eminent theatre of public instruction 
 in our country. 
 
 We will not weary your patience with further 
 comment on the plan of this great project of popular 
 education which we are now assembled to inaugu- 
 rate. We hope in the regular and diligent adminis- 
 tration of its duties, from this time forth, to famil- 
 iarize its designs to your perception and to commend 
 it to your good opinion by the service it may 
 render the community. It is sufficient for us to 
 say to you at this time that the Trustees have 
 resolved to proceed in their work as efficiently and 
 as rapidly as the means at their command will 
 enable them ' to do. 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 123 
 
 The Library is under a regular progress of con- 
 struction, and will, after the present large fund for 
 its establishment is exhausted, be continuously in- 
 creased by a yearly appropriation proportioned to 
 the amounts required in the general service of The 
 Institute. 
 
 The Lectures will be expanded and varied under 
 the same conditions of expenditures. 
 
 The Academy of Music and the Gallery of Art 
 will await, at least for their complete organization, 
 the erection of the buildings necessary to their 
 accommodation . 
 
 It is proper before concluding to say a few words 
 in reference to the government of The Institute. 
 
 The public have long been aware that the original 
 plan of management, as set forth in Mr. Peabody's 
 letter of the 12th of February, 1857, contemplated 
 a mixed government, in which the duty of organiza- 
 tion and supervision was given to the Board of 
 Trustees, and that of administration was intended to 
 be offered to the Maryland Historical Society, of 
 which Mr. Peabody was a distinguished member. 
 
 Upon the fact being communicated to the public, 
 that this duty of administration would, when The 
 Institute was organized and ready to assume its 
 functions, be tendered to the Historical Society, that 
 
124 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 body with a most generous alacrity took ati early 
 occasion to express its hearty concurrence in Mr. 
 Peabody's wishes, and to assure him, in anticipa- 
 tion of the offer, that, when the time should arrive 
 for asking their co-operation, they would most cheer- 
 fully undertake the duties he assigned to them. 
 
 Years after this elapsed. The building, as it now 
 stands, was erected in the midst of that unhappy 
 depression brought upon us by the late civil war. 
 It presents scarcely one-half of the structure required 
 for the full accommodation of The Institute. This 
 whole house, it is found, will be engrossed by the 
 Lecture Hall, and the apartments indispensable to 
 the Library. Indeed, it is now quite apparent that 
 the Library must ultimately be transferred to the 
 new section of the Institute hereafter to be con- 
 structed, after which the present Library rooms may 
 be appropriated to other departments. 
 
 In this long delay that has befallen our enter- 
 prise — a delay which the circumstances we have 
 alluded to made inevitable — we have, at least, found 
 some experience, profiting by which, it occurred to 
 the Trustees and to Mr. Peabody — and doubtless, 
 it has occurred also to many members of the So- 
 ciety — that before the Institute was presented to the 
 public, it would be a wise measure on the part of 
 
ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES. 125 
 
 both bodies, to rescind, by common consent, the 
 arrangement of the double administration — a measure 
 which, at that stage in the progress of the Insti- 
 tute, was within the easy control of the parties 
 interested. It was only necessary for the founder to 
 express his wish on this subject to the Society, with 
 a request that it would decline the duty to which 
 he had invited it. 
 
 This was done very recently in a kind letter 
 addressed by Mr. Peabody to that body, asking, as 
 a favor to himself, that it would relinquish a pur- 
 pose which it had only consented to perform from 
 its respect and regard for him. 
 
 The action of the Society on this letter was 
 prompt, gracious and most honorable to its esteem 
 for the author. The acceptance of the anticipated 
 duties was recalled, and the Historical Society lost 
 no time to communicate its proceedings to the Board 
 of Trustees. 
 
 By this event the future management of the In- 
 stitute in all its details has fallen into the hands of 
 the Trustees, who are now alone responsible for the 
 administration as well as the organization of the 
 whole plan. To accomplish these ends, thanks to 
 our generous benefactor, the means are ample. 
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126 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 We have an endowment which commenced with 
 the princely sum of three hundred thousand dollars, 
 and was increased hy successive gifts, from time to 
 time, to half a million. 
 
 Just at the moment when this glorious enterprise 
 of benevolence is starting upon the grand career 
 assigned to it, we are gladdened and astounded by 
 another act of this wonderful faculty of giving, which 
 crowns all that had gone before, by doubling former 
 benefactions, and swelling this vast endowment to a 
 million of dollars. 
 
 We have now said all that we think necessary on 
 the present occasion, touching the nature and history 
 of the enterprise of founding this Institute. We 
 therefore hasten to a conclusion with a few remarks 
 upon the spirit in which our friend and patron 
 desires this work of his to be conducted. 
 
 We cannot do this better than by presenting to 
 you his letter of the 12th of February, 1857, and 
 reading from it his own explanation of the ends he 
 hoped to accomplish by this munificent gift. You 
 will listen to words full of good thoughts and ear- 
 nest patriotism — words which should be always read 
 by the people of Baltimore, not only with the affec- 
 tion due to their most honored benefactor, but also 
 
ADDBBSS OF THE TETJSTEES. 127 
 
 with the reverence due to a wise and virtuous 
 teacher. 
 
 In the concluding passage of the letter Mr. Pea- 
 body says to the Trustees: 
 
 "These, gentlemen, are the general instructions I 
 have to impart to you, for your guidance in the 
 laborious duties I have committed to your care. 
 You will perceive that my design is to establish an 
 Institute which shall, in some degree, administer to 
 the bene^ts of every portion of the City of Balti- 
 more: which shall supply the means of pursuing the 
 acquirement of knowledge and the study of art to 
 every emulous student of either sex, who may be 
 impelled by the laudable desire of improvement to 
 seek it: which shall furnish incentives to the ambi- 
 tion of meritorious youth in the Public Schools, and 
 in that useful School of Design, under the charge 
 of the Mechanics Institute, by providing for those 
 who excel, a reward which, I hope, will be found 
 to be not only a token of honorary distinction, but 
 also a timely contribution towards the means of the 
 worthy candidate who shall win it, for the com- 
 mencement of a successful career in life: which shall 
 afford opportunity to those whom fortune has blessed 
 with leisure, to cultivate those kindly and liberal- 
 izing arts that embellish the character by improving 
 
128 PBABODY IKSTITUTB. 
 
 the perception of the beautiful and the true, and 
 which, by habituating the mind to the contempla- 
 tion of the best works of genius, render it more 
 friendly and generous towards the success of deserv- 
 ing artists in their early endeavors after fame." 
 
 To this he adds, as we have just heard, that im- 
 pressive passage which warns us against the evils 
 of intolerance, bigotry and party rancor, and dedi- 
 cates this his bounteous gift to the inculcation of 
 political and religious charity, tolerance and benefi- 
 cence. 
 
 This is our friend's exposition of the great objects 
 contemplated by him in the establishment of The 
 Institute. We have his purpose and his advice 
 from his own lips. These are put upon record to 
 be preserved and handed down from the fathers of 
 this day to their children as an inheritance which, 
 wisely used, will grow to be the richest amongst 
 the treasures of the City. This munificent endow- 
 ment — we cannot err in saying — is one of those 
 good thoughts which our religious insight, no less 
 than the most venerable experiences of history, 
 teaches us are often planted by a bountiful Provi- 
 dence, as blessed seed in a fertile mind, that they 
 may germinate and grow up to maturity and bear 
 fruit for the wholesome nurture of generations of 
 
ADDEESS OF THE TEOSTBES. 129 
 
 mankind. To our comprehension of it — which is 
 warmed and colored by our acquaintance with its 
 author and our admiration of the perfect honesty 
 and truth of his nature — the grandeur of this gift 
 is enhanced and even consecrated by the quiet, un- 
 ostentatious and sincere benevolence of the giver, in 
 whose composition generosity is so spontaneous and 
 pervasive that the benefactor is almost unconscious 
 of the affluence of his own bounty. 
 
 There are great charities sometimes made by men 
 in their life-time, of such magnitude and so nobly 
 inspired by love of country, as to become heroic 
 and to live in the memory of mankind as landmarks 
 in a country's history. These, even as single deeds, 
 are very rare. George Peabody's name will stand 
 conspicuous on national records for Tnanifold acts of 
 matchless beneficence which the people of two great 
 empires will never forget. 
 
 The Trustees have now performed the duty pro- 
 posed in this address, by giving you a history of 
 The Institute and endeavoring to describe its organ- 
 ization, as well as to indicate what we hope will 
 be its future career. 
 
 The gratitude of the people of Baltimore who 
 may herafter find instruction and pleasure in fre- 
 quenting these halls, we trust, will long have reason 
 
130 ADDRESS OF THE TETTSTBES. 
 
 to commemorate the 12tK of February, in every 
 coming year, as a festival anniversary to render 
 appropriate honors to the name of Greorge Peabody. 
 And now we present this Institute to the public 
 use and enjoyment of the community of Baltimore, 
 as an offering made to the City by the most gener- 
 ous, benevolent and earnest man of his age. 
 
MK. PEABODY'S ADDRESS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CHILDEEN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 When I arrived in Baltimore on Wednesday, my 
 dear young friends, I did not expect to meet you 
 thus, but finding by a visit from your School Com- 
 missioners' Board that such was your desire, I con- 
 cluded to meet you, even should it be necessary to 
 postpone my departure from Baltimore beyond the 
 time originally fixed. And I take to myself no 
 credit for doing so, for I assure you that my desire 
 to see you is as strong as yours can possibly be 
 to see me, and never have I seen a more beautiful 
 sight than this vast collection of interesting children. 
 The review of the finest army, with soldiers clothed 
 in brilliant uniforms, and attended by the most de- 
 lightful strains of martial music, could never give 
 me one-half the pleasure that it does to look upon 
 you here, with your bright and happy faces. For 
 the sight of such an army as I have spoken of 
 would be associated with thoughts of bloodshed and 
 
132 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 human suffering — of strife and violence; but I may- 
 well compare you, on the other hand, to an army 
 of peace, and your mission on earth is not to 
 destroy your fellow-creatures, but to be a blessing 
 to them; and your path when you go out from 
 these public schools is to be marked, not by ravages 
 and desolation, but, I trust, by kindly words and 
 actions, and by good will to all you meet. 
 
 With such an assemblage as this, therefore, I am 
 glad to have my name associated, as I see that it 
 is, hf the badges worn by many of you, and I 
 shall feel it to be a very great honor if the medals 
 thus bearing my name shall continue, as I am 
 informed they have heretofore done, to prove incen- 
 tives to application, diligence and good conduct, and 
 I shall ever take a sincere interest in those to 
 whom they are awarded. 
 
 There is another relation in which I look upon 
 you, and that is the future guardians of the Insti- 
 tute from which I speak to you. For in a few 
 short years you will have left the places you now 
 occupy, and taking the positions of those now in 
 active life, will have the care and enjoy the privi- 
 leges of this Institution. And I hope most earnestly 
 that it may be the means of all the good to you 
 that was contemplated in its foundation, and that 
 
ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 133 
 
 you, on your part, may see that it is carried on 
 always with kind feeling and harmony. And so I 
 trust, my dear young friends, that in passing by 
 this edifice — young though you are now — you will 
 feel, in looking upon it, not that it is one for grown- 
 up men and women, and with which you have no 
 concern, but that it is yours also; that you will at 
 no distant day have a right in it as your heritage, 
 and so will even now in your tender years take an 
 interest in it and all things connected with it. 
 
 I have now but little advice to give you, for I 
 am sure that your parents and teachers have be- 
 stowed, and always will bestow, upon you the kind- 
 est and most earnest counsel; but I would say, 
 attend closely ta your studies, and remember that 
 your close attention to them is a thousand times 
 more important to you than to your teachers. Bear 
 in mind that the time of your studies, though it may 
 now appear long to you, is in reality very brief, 
 and at a future day, when it is perhaps too late, 
 you yourselves will feel that it is so. Do not be 
 ashamed to ask advice and take counsel from those 
 older than yourselves; the time will come when you, 
 in your turn, may advise those younger than you, 
 and who will follow in your footsteps. Strive always 
 to imitate the good example of others. I am glad 
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134 PBABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 that your assemblage is in this most interesting 
 place, for I hope that your future recollections of 
 this occasion may be connected with the thought of 
 him whose statue crowns yonder beautiful monu- 
 ment, the illustrious Father of his Country, and 
 that you may be induced to take him more and 
 more for your model; for he, pre-eminently great 
 among men, was also great and good in his boy- 
 hood and youth. As time has passed, it has ren- 
 dered eulogy of him as superfluous as if it were to 
 praise the sun for its brightness, and it is as the 
 most perfect example for imitation the world has 
 ever seen, that we must look upon the character of 
 Washington. Remember, then, his youthful life; 
 the instances, too familiar to need repeating by me, 
 of his truthfulness, his self-denial, his integrity, his 
 perseverance, his . reverence for age, his affection for 
 his parents, and his fear of God. Finally, strive 
 always to act as if the eye of your Heavenly 
 Father were upon you, and if you do this, His 
 countenance will always smile upon you. 
 
 I fear, my young friends, this is the last time 
 I shall ever speak to you, I therefore bid you fare- 
 well. God bless you all. 
 
ANNUAL LETTER 
 
 FROM 
 
 TflE BOAKD OF TBUSTEES. 
 
 Peakdy Instituk of the City of Baltimore, 
 February 12th, 1868. 
 
 Geobgb Pbabody, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir: In tendering and renewing to you the 
 felicitations of the Trustees on the Eleventh Anni- 
 versary of the foundation of your Institute, I per- 
 form an agreeable duty, rendered somewhat embar- 
 rassing, however, by the difficulty of finding suitable 
 and adequate terms to express the respect and admi- 
 ration so justly and so universally entertained for 
 you. 
 
 We feel and know that the truest and most ac- 
 ceptable mode of manifesting our regard and venera- 
 tion for you, is by endeavoring to consummate and 
 give eflfect to the laudable and benevolent objects 
 and ends which you designed to attain by placing 
 such vast means of usefulness in our hands. 
 
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 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 How we have used those means, and how far we 
 have succeeded in carrying out your views and 
 designs, will appear by a synopsis of the Keports 
 of the Treasurer, Provost and Standing Committees, 
 which has been prepared and is herewith trans- 
 mitted, in compliance with a resolution of the Board 
 of Trustees, passed this day. 
 
 Most respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 J. PENNINGTON, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
SYNOPSIS OF REPOETS. 
 
 Synopsis from the Reports of the Treasurer, Pro- 
 vost and Committees of the Peabody Institute, re- 
 ferred to in the preceding letter. 
 
 EECEIPTS AND EXPENDITUEES. 
 
 On the lath October, 1866, the 
 Trustees had received your sev- 
 eral donations, amounting to . $500,000.00 
 
 From Eents, Interest, &c 73,383.50 
 
 $573,383.50 
 
 The Receipts from that date 
 to 31st of December, 1867, 
 were — 
 
 Your additional donation of . . $500,000.00 
 From sale of tickets to Concerts, 1,024.25 
 
 From " " Lectures, 1,842.25 
 
 From Eents, Interest, &c. . . . 77,391.91 
 
 580,258.41 
 
 Total receipts $1,153,641.91 
 
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 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Total Receipts brought forward, . . . $1,153,641.91 
 The Expenditures to ,13th 
 October, 1866, werfe — 
 For purchase of Ground, with the 
 
 Buildings thereon, . . . . ^. $106,547.83 
 For the Institute Building, . . 170,000.00 
 
 For Premiums and Medals, . 11,472.83 
 
 For Books for the Library, . . 26,368.03 
 For Salaries and all other expenses, 26,162.45 
 For Furniture, Gas Fixtures, Phi- 
 losophical Apparatus, &c. . . 12,000.00 
 The Expenditures from 13th 
 October, 1866, to 31st Decem- 
 ber, 1867, were — 
 
 Premiums and Medals 1,140.55 
 
 Books for the Library 27,889.26 
 
 Salaries and Incidentals, . . . 4.200.19 
 
 Lectures 6,040.69 
 
 Music 2,205.92 
 
 Premium on U. S. Bonds pur- 
 chased 62,110.00 
 
 456,137.75 
 
 Balance on hand, as cash, to 31st 
 
 December, 1867, $697,504.16 
 
 Of which there is invested— 
 In United States Securities, . . $550,000.00 
 In Baltimore City six per cent. 
 
 Stock 100,000.00 
 
 In Temporary Loans, well secured, 25,000.00 
 
 In Cash, 22,504.16 
 
 $697,504.16 
 
SYNOPSIS OF REPORTS. 139 
 
 The Trustees have postponed the erection of the 
 additional building forming a portion of the adopted 
 plan of the Institute, because of the enormous in- 
 crease in the price of labor and materials. 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 Was formally opened to the public on the day of 
 inauguration, the 25th of October, 1866, and has 
 been kept open from 9 o'clock, A. M. to 4 o'clock, 
 P. , M. daily, except Sundays. For some months 
 previous it had been ocfeasionally visited and used 
 by residents and strangers. It then contained over 
 15,000 volumes. Since the 2nd Novem'ber, 1867, 
 it has also been open fr®m 7 to 10 o'clock, P. M. 
 
 Attached to the Library is a spacious and com- 
 fortable Reading Room, which is frequented by a 
 large and increasing number of readers and students, 
 to whom ample facilities are afforded for reference 
 to, and perusal of the books. Should additional 
 accommodation for visitors become necessary, it can 
 be fully and conveniently provided. 
 
 On the 31st December, 1867, there were 22,942 
 volumes in the Library. Carefully prepared lists 
 of books have been sent and renewed from time to 
 time to reliable agents in Europe, with directions to 
 
140 
 
 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 purchase and ship them with all possible diligence, 
 after due examination and approval. Large acces- 
 sions are continually made from our domestic press, 
 which is rapidly improving in value and variety. 
 
 The Trustees have always regarded the Library 
 of the Institute with special interest and favor, and 
 have endeavored to conform to the directions and 
 suggestions contained in your letter of tbe 12th 
 February, 1857, in which it is so prominently and 
 particularly commended to their vigilant supervision 
 and liberal patronage. 
 
 The appropriations for the Library to the 31st 
 December, 1867, amounted to $75,000, of which 
 $53,000 have been expended, leaving $22,000 in 
 the hands of the Library Committee for additional 
 purchases. 
 
 LECTUEES. 
 
 This department was organized in 1866, and a 
 course of thirty-four Lectures on various branches of 
 science and other useful knowledge was delivered 
 between the 20th November, 1866, and tbe 21st 
 March, 1867, by Professors and Teachers most 
 eminent for their learning, and for their skill in 
 thus imparting it. 
 
SYKOPSIS OF REPORTS. 141 
 
 The entire course was well attended, and gave 
 very general satisfaction; the best evidence of which 
 is the increased number attending the present course 
 of thirty Lectures, which commenced on the 19th 
 November last, and will terminate on the 5th March 
 next. 
 
 The cost of the first course was |5, 369,44 
 The receipts from ^ale of tickets, 1,842.25 
 
 The net cost, • . $3,527.19 
 
 To guard against excluding persons of the hum- 
 blest means from these Lectures, the price of a 
 ticket for each course was put at $1.50, averaging 
 five cents a Lecture. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 Wo plan for the permanent organization of the 
 Academy of Music has yet been adopted: a Stand- 
 ing Committee who have charge of the subject, 
 have acquired the necessary information for its pro- 
 per organization and management, which will enable 
 the Trustees to place it upon a favorable foundation 
 as soon as suitable rooms and accommodations can 
 be appropriated to it. 
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142 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Under the direction of the Committee twelve con- 
 certs were given during the winter of 1866-67, 
 which attracted large audiences, and were very well 
 received. 
 
 The cost of these concerts was . $2,236.92 
 The receipts from sales of tickets, 1,024.25 
 
 Net cost, $1,212.67 
 
 During the present winter three concerts have 
 been given, and an arrangement made to give one 
 every fortnight during the remainder of the season. 
 
 PINE ARTS. 
 
 There is also a Standing Committee on this De- 
 partment, but nothing has been done towards its 
 organization, nor can anything be done towards it 
 until an additional building be erected. 
 
 The distribution of prizes and medals among the 
 successful pupils of the Public Schools has been 
 punctually and faithfully made according to the 
 directions, of your letter. 
 
 There; is an earnest emulation among the scholars 
 of both sexes to obtain them. The competition for 
 them has had a most beneficial influence in securing 
 a more regular attendance and a higher range of 
 
SYNOPSIS OF EEPORTS. 143 
 
 attainment in the several branches of study. Most 
 of the graduates who receive the necessary certifi- 
 cates, avail themselves of free admission to the Lec- 
 tures. 
 
 It is the intention of the Trustees, as the several 
 departments are organized and put in operation, to 
 apportion and appropriate a specific sum for the 
 maintenance and advancement of each. 
 
 When the Trustees assumed the honorable charge 
 and commission you had confided to them, they had 
 little knowledge, and less experience, of the duties 
 and responsibilities devolving upon them, and of the 
 usual and proper plans and modes of executing them. 
 It was, therefore, with unfeigned diffidence they 
 entered upon the discharge of their trust. 
 
 Every year tends to bring them into a more fa- 
 miliar acquaintance with the accustomed routine of 
 regulating and conducting an Institution like this, 
 so as to carry it to the highest point of efficiency 
 and usefulness. And it will be the aim and pride 
 of the Trustees to make this Institute worthy of 
 the name which it bears. 
 
 By the direction and on behalf of 
 The Board of Trustees, 
 
 J. PENNINGTON, 
 
 Vice- President. 
 
TEEASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 The Treasurer of the Peabody Institute of the 
 City of Baltimore, reports : 
 
 Received from tlie founder, George 
 
 Peabody $1,000,000.00 
 
 Received from Rents, 24,583.16 
 
 Received from Interest 125,864.93 
 
 Received from Books, Old Paper, 
 
 Boxes, &c., sold 191.32 
 
 Received from Insurance Company 
 
 for Damage by Fire 136.00 
 
 Received from Department of Aca- 
 demy of Music, Lectures and 
 Concerts, from sale of tickets, . 1,024.25 
 
 Received from Department of Lec- 
 tures, from sale of tickets, . . 1,842.25 
 
 Total Receipts to date, . . $1,153,641.91 
 
treasueer's report. 145 
 
 CONTEA. 
 
 Paid for lot of the Institute Build- 
 ing, $53,197.83 
 
 Paid for two Dwelling Houses ad- 
 joining, 53,350.00 
 
 Paid for cost of Institute Building, 170,000.00 
 
 Paid for Premiums and Medak to 
 Public Schools 12,613.38 
 
 Paid for Books for Library, in- 
 cluding all expenses, .... 54,257.29 
 
 Paid for Furniture, Gas Fixtures, 
 Lecture Apparatus, &c. . . 12,000.00 
 
 Paid Department of Academy of 
 Music, Lectures and Concerts, 
 expenses 2,205.92 
 
 Paid Department of Lectures, ex- 
 penses Lectures, Diagrams, &c. 6,040.69 
 
 Paid for Salaries and all other 
 expenses, 30,362.64 
 
 Paid Premium on United States 
 Bonds purchased 62,110.00 
 
 Balance on hand to new account, 697,504.16 
 
 $1,153,641.91 
 
146 PEABODY INSTITUTE. 
 
 Balance on hand from old account — 
 
 United States 5-20 6 per cent. 
 
 Bonds $250,000.00 
 
 United States 1881 6 per cent. 
 
 Bonds 300,000.00 
 
 City of Baltimore 6 per cent. Wa- 
 ter Stock, . . 100,000.00 
 
 Temporary Loan on United States 
 
 Bonds 25,000.00 
 
 Balance Cash in Bank 22,504.16 
 
 $697,504.16 
 
 E. E., Baltimoee, December 31s<, 1867. 
 
 ENOCH PRATT, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Adopted at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, 
 February 12th, 1868. 
 
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