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Langton (John) Family, Sir Daniel Wilson Diary (1853-1892) LETTERS AND JOURNALS OP SIR DANIEL WILSON Notes I. Way in which the style of the main building was evolved - Cumberland designed a Victorian Gothic building. Sir Edmund Hoad wanted a round-arched Italian building, probably Renaissance. Cumberland compromised on the present style, which Lord xXifferin called ’’Norman-Gothic". II. Sir Daniel V/ilson designed the large window on the front. This he told W.A.L. himself. III. Sir Daniel Wilson also added the four lumps at the top of the tower at the corners ( see original sketch of elevation without them). IV. Sir John A. .Macdonald’s mot was the advice "to put the University endowment into a building — even a Methodist can’t steal bricks and mortar." LETTERS Al© JOURl^ALS OF SIR DANIEL WILSON LETTERS December 29, 1851. To his wife: After chaffing her about the difficulty he finds in filling a large sheet in a letter to her, and reminding her of the long ones she used to write in the days of their engagement, which she probably could not do now any more than he himself, ho says: I do not conclude on that account that you loved me better than you do now, after a dozen years of wedded life. But you and I were then two distinct people. Our sympathies were not without their influence on each other, but after all they moved in very different circles, and so we communicated like the plenipotentiaries of two friendly powers — not without sundry jealousies and threats of war -- but upon the whole, with a very kindly regard to the recognized design of mutual alliance and projected league, offensive and defensive, against all the world. Now that the league is long ratified and we are one, I feel it something like setting about writing a letter to myself, when I sit down to write you. I have nothing to tell you that you do not know already. My very jokes and puns you have heard a hundred times. My graver grumblings and misanthropies you have rebuked into silence; and then, having carried off with you the two wee bodies, what remains for me to record? PART OF HIS JOUEHAL Septeniber 10, 1853. [Walking outside the limits of Philadelphia] I found tokens of being in the country by the pleasant '’Good evening" salutations of the few passers, and a poor old negro woman, surprised apparently at my getting off a narrow footpath to make way for her, stopped and with a very low curtsey wished me "Good evening. Master." [At Jones's Hotel, Philadelphia.] breakfast is served at seven and eight, when the gong is sounded. .. .dinner in like manner at three and four. Tea at half-past six The table exhibits a profusion of strange meats Among the novelties of the breakfast-table are stewed potatoes, kidneys, trips [?tripeO. scrambled eggs - a sweet preparation somewhat like an omelet - minced fish, fishballs, egg-plant, fried in slices and tasting something like a sugared oyster!, sweet potatoes - but indeed everything is sweet, even the corned beef seems preserved with sugar instead of salt. The bread includes wheat rolls - warm, corn bread - made of Indian com and very pleasant, dipped toast - seemingly a slice of toast boiled in milk, milk rolls, etc. For the dinner I might fill a page But ice is used with everything. The natives drop it into their wine, they drop it into their tea and coffee, mix it in their hot puddings, eat it with their fruit As we came home [from a walk with Professor Boye, a ship acquaintance and a professor of chemistry in Philadelphia], Professor Boye, who insisted on escorting me to my hotel, warned me to beware of my feet at a place where the paving was tom up, and loose planks lying about. "Remember," said he, "we have no police regulations here such as you have at home. Journal. Septembor 10, 1853 ( 2 ) Every man is expected to look after himself. If you break your leg in such a hole, you may try your remedy at law against the owner of the adjoining house, but you will find it cheaper and better to [settle the matter?] yourself!” Such I can see, is the regulating principle of a great many things, here. ’’Every man for himself is the country’s motto; as to who was neighbour to him that fell among thieves, the question is by no means settled nor thought wssrth the trouble..... I grieve to find that Ethnology is here made to subserve the vulgarest prejudices, and the idea that the black man is sprung from the same stock as the white is counted as rediculous. LETTERS. September 13, 1853. Philadelphia. ”I have had the pleasing surprise of finding myself not unknown here. My ’’archaeology” is in the public libraries here, and so I have had doctors and professors calling and leaving their cards for me at the hotel where I stay, and have had free access to every public institution I cared to see; have attended the meetings of the Historical Society of Philadelphia and of the Academy of Natural Science. I am to be elected an Honorary Fellow, etc All my first impressions of America are highly favourable. The city is really beautiful, the scenery around it fine, and the people hospitable and altogether agreeable. I am in the midst of novelties, and have all my eyes open. Indeed, I have been making excellent use of my time. I have been up early and late, and have walked my boots and stockings both into holes. By this means I have accomplished a great deal in a short time, and now after five days residence in Philadelphia I know my way about it as familiarly as I do through the streets of Auld Reekie.... I have not been altogether engaged in pleasure... Letters. September IS, 1853 (3) specially examined the educational institutions and system of teaching; and I leave Philadelphia with a box-load of pamphlets and books on schools, colleges, and on ethnological and historical subjects, all presented to me by the savants of the city. If all American cities are like this, the Yankees may be pardoned boasting To come to homelier themes, however, let me tell you of the table. I have been eating and drinking all manner of extraordinary things. Peaches are here more plentiful than apples at home. They are sold on the stalls at a cent each. Besides these there are water melons, grapes, cantelopes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, Indian com - the ear eaten green with butter, etc. Then the bread includes all sorts never heard of on the European side of the Atlantic. I have tried every- thing The greatest fault is that everything is sweet; potatoes, bread, vegetables, etc., and eaten with a profusion of butter At the hotels here a fixed sum is charged — a dollar and a half per day, and that suffices for everything. The breakfast bell rings at seven and eight o’clock, the dinner at one and three, tea at half past six, and then all sit down together. But the same is paid whether you come or not, so that the hospitalities of friends have not lessened ray expense. It is much less, however, than I could have stayed for in any hotel in England or Scotland, as there is nothing for servants. JOURNAL. September 19, 1853. l_At Albany]. The town has an odd mixture of a rough sea- faring character and a pleasant rustic nonchalance. Pigs run about the streets in abundance; but that I saw also, both at Philadelphia and New York Journal. September 19, 1653 (4) [He took train at 6:30 p.m. from Albany to Rochester]. Between two and three in the morning we stopped at a place called Oneida, and were told that the cars waited here a quarter of an hour for refreshments. I had had nothing since midday the day before; I got out and took a cup of coffee... We then returned to our seats and I had just composed myself to sleep again, when crash’ the whole carriage was a heap of ruins. I was jammed in between two seats, both my legs wedged in, while shrieks, groans, and cries for help resounded amid the most frightful confusion. .. .[Newspaper cutting attached here says that the Express was run into by a freight train, apparently from behind.] The car I was in was the second last, but it suffered the most. The car behind it was thrown up behind the buffers, and came smash in upon us, driving everything crash together. My legs were caught below the knee and fixed between the seats which were driven together. Those who were more fortunate following the natural though selfish instinct of self-preserva- tion, came trampling over prostrate women and children. I saw at once that both my legs must be broken in another second, and seizing hold of a brass rail which runs along the inside of the carriage for light luggage, i took advantage of the recoil of the carriage before it returned with a second crash, and swinging myself up I held on there by my hands clear of the danger; while the poor fellov; who sat next me, and who appeared to have lost all presence of mind, had both his legs broken..... I never can witness anything more fright- ful. One man was literally cut in pieces, not a yard from me, and as I hung on above this awful scene I expected every instant that the carriage, which swayed about, would fall over and finish us all I was sufficiently hurt to be unable to assist anyone else.
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