June 1st–5th. – Lecturing till I am sick. I am not happy in Manchester. The associations of these hideous mill-prisons for children destroy my enjoyment in society. The people are quite insensible to it; but how they can go on as they do in all luxurious enjoyments with those huge factories overhanging them, is most extraordinary. 17th, 18th. – This was imagination. I have since examined large factories – 2000 in one room, and found the children healthy and strong, and the room well aired and wholesome.
