WASHINGTON, February
22, 1867.
DEAR UNCLE:—Enclosed
is the account of Carpenter's Lincoln. I have the picture and will also have
Marshall's, and will one of these days express them both to you. As one is
framed, be careful in opening them.
I send you a rather
curious phrenological estimate of the Congressmen on the Pacific Railroad
excursion (Buck[land] and myself included) with portraits. It is curious as
showing that Mr. [Samuel R.] Wells, who is a respectable person, and who
professes to judge people on the principles of what he calls the sciences of
phrenology and physiology, really gets his impressions just as you and I do,
from their manners, conduct, and conversation. He is evidently not influenced a
particle by temperament or head and features. He is singularly and laughably
wrong in Buck's case. The only interest in the whole thing is that it shows the
impression that a tolerably good observer gets on a short acquaintance with us.
We are getting on
just right in politics here. The Commercial regrets my course one day, but the
next day proved I was right.
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