THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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adaptation to its various uses, it may be worthy
of the purpose to which it is dedicated, and may
serve to embellish a city, whose prosperity I trust
will ever be distinguished by an equal growth
in knowledge and virtue.
I am with great respect,
Your friend,
GEORGE PEABODY.

To Messrs. Wm. E. Mayhew, John P. Ken-
nedy, Chas. J. M. Eaton, Thomas Swann, George
Brown, John B. Morris, S. Owings Hoffman, G.
W. Burnap, W. H. D. C. Wright, Josias Pen-
nington, Wm. McKim, David S. Wilson, John
M. Gordon, Samuel W. Smith, Chauncy Brooks,
Wm. F. Murdoch, Enoch Pratt, J. Mason Camp-
bell, Geo. W. Brown, Galloway Cheston, George
P. Tiffany, Wm. Prescott Smith, Chas. Braden-
baugh, Edw. M. Greenway, Jr., Wm. C. Shaw.

Mr. Peabo-
dy's first letter.

And whereas, the list of two hundred names
referred to in the foregoing letter, is contained in
another letter from Mr. Peabody to certain per-
sons therein named, of which the following is a
copy:

SECOND LETTER OF MR. PEABODY.

BALTIMORE, February 14th, 1857.

Preamble con-
tinued.

Gentlemen :— In the organization of the Insti-
tute to be established 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 per-
petual succession by their own selection and ap-
pointment. And as from the nature of the du-
ties required of them, they are necessarily lim-
ited within a compass which excludes a large
number of those whom I should be glad to in-
terest in the success of the undertaking, I have
thought I might, in some degree, assure myself
of this advantage, by placing in the hands of the
Board of Trustees, the names of two hundred
citizens, selected from the most worthy and intel-
ligent of this city, comprised of many, whom it
has been my good fortune, in time past, to rank
amongst my intimate personal friends, several of
the sons of my old associates now gone, and a

Mr. Peabody's
second letter.