Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Education, Mathematics, Exhibitions, Dynamics, Electrochemistry, Chemistry, Physical Geography

    The narrator describes his education while on holiday in a spoof letter to the Rev Mr Stuffem, his school master. Explains how he tried to improve his knowledge of arithmetic by studying 'figures' at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, and then visited the Royal Polytechnic Institution where he saw 'lectures on the Diving Bell'. He also explored optics with 'Dissolving Views', 'Die-namics' with a 'medal-making machine', galvanism, chemistry, and geography.