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Mrs Elisabeth Stanton

You have a predominance of the vital and mental temperaments with a full degree of the Motive but the last is not as sustaining in its influence the vital having the ascending knot being abused, Your life principle is ample and health perfect: few persons have a better organization for longevity You derive the tone of your mind and constitution from your mother hence partake of the nature of the Livingston family rather than that of your father, You have a plump round form fair complexion and animated expression. 
Your brain is about the common size, large at the base, occipital
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and frontal regions. Some faculties are quite large, while others are inferior in strength and influence.
	All the social faculties are large with large combativeness, Destructiveness Alimentiveness, Firmness Benev[olent], Construc[tiveness]: and several of the intellectual organs. You are characterized for the following traits
	First; are warm hearted, capable of enjoying the society of your friends much are greatly attached to your kin, and find it especially difficult to give up those whom you have once loved, enjoy the society of the gentleman, are not cold hearted toward them and under favorable circumstances are ready to respond
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to the expressions of sympathy and affection from them, are better adapted to the business and subjects of conversation peculiar to men than those of women, are capable of enjoying the connubial relation in a high degree, are very fond of children well qualified to sympathize with them in their helplessness. Attachment to place is also strong, you are fond of home and its associations, still would enjoy traveling by way of gratifying the other faculties, 
	You lack continuity of mind and close application to one thing find it difficult to attend to details either in business or in thought, prefer to have your mind occupied with things that are extensive and comprehensive in their nature. Your thoughts and feelings
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are more intense and vivid than prolonged and connected. Love of life is strong. You have a great desire to live and enjoy the pleasures of life. Your large Combat[iveness] and Destruct[iveness], joined with your vital temperament give an unusual degree of force, energy and executiveness of mind, you never stop at trifles. are much more inclined to labor where there are severe difficulties to over come than to walk in the smoother paths of life, are full of resolution and have a daring spirit when provoked, are capable of being decidedly indignant, your feelings are not of the tame, quiet class. You are capable of being very sarcastic, rigorous in your style
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of conversation or writing and at times are not sufficiently gentle and easy in your manners. Appetite is strong and digestion good. None better. 
Your desire for gain is comparatively good, but owing to the combination of your faculties you are not naturally qualified to attend to the details of business as to make it a special matter of effort to economize but you prefer to live as you go along and have what you like.
Secret[iveness] and Caut.[iousness] are rather wanting, hence with so much propelling of executive power are liable to act from the impulse of the moment and exhibit boldness and energy of character, that the occasion does not warrant. You are afraid of nothing are not restrained from acting on 
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or speaking through fear of consequences. You show your character just as it is, hence have more individuality and positiveness than females generally. You are no hypocrite, tho’ you may not always express in words the depths of your feelings. You detest nothing so much as underhanded means and do not as many do, take advantage of circumstances to show off and would not be as likely to exhibit those captivating qualities of love or make that display in the manifestation of agreeable qualities necessary to attract attention.  Approbativeness is rather prominent, but its function joined with self-esteem in your case is rather to give sense of 
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character, independence of thought and moral courage, than love of show and display, or desire for attention and flattery. You are not naturally dignified, have not the feeling of self-love, are not devoted to yourself, care more to exist a moral and intellectual influence on society than to put yourself forward as an object of attraction.
	Your energy of character might so manifest itself that you would get the credit of being proud and haughty but in reality you are not so, indeed are at times wanting in true pride and self-love.
	You have remarkable Firmness and perseverance when you have once laid out your plans and taken your position. You are not to be driven
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from your purposes or prevented from consummating your designs. 
	Your moral brain is unevenly developed. Conscien[tiousness], as conmeeted with Firmness is fully developed and its manifestation are particularly seen with reference to the “higher Law”
	It should have a distinct influence in your character while that portion joining Cautiousness is defective. Hence your regard for human law and the consequences of conduct is less active, which may sometimes manifest itself in want of circumspection as seen by others. No law is law to you unless sanctioned by the intellect and in harmony with moral obligation.
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Hope is full and has a sustaining influence on your mind. Tho you are not particularly elated by enthusiasm and extravagant expectations of success. Still are not easily discouraged, and have a disposition to regard things in a favorable more than a discouraging light.  Veneration and Marvellousness are also average and their influence would be comparatively small and guided mostly by other faculties. Veneration as manifested toward intellect and superior merit has a fair influence over your character and conduct, but as giving deference for mere openness forms and customs as such, is not distinct. Whatever others
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value as superior is no criterion to you. Faith is weak when compared with your reason. You are governed by what you can understand and comprehend, more than by faith. Benevolence is large and you are naturally kind, humane, generous with your feelings, anxious for the good of society, delight in rendering service and promoting the happiness of others. This is the strongest and most influential impulse in cntriving ways and means to secure ends, also your sense of the beautiful, poetical and love of the sublime in nature and oratory. 
	You have uncommon power to imitate and conform to 
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circumstances, to adapt yourself to changes of society or to different kinds of labor are particularly fond of fun, disposed to joke, can appreciate wit, are however more sarcastic, personal, pointed, and truthful in your remarks than funny and mirthful.
	Your intellectual faculties are, as a whole, fully developed, and the strength of your intellect lies chiefly in your disposition to reason, inquire into causes in comprehending principles and becoming acquainted with the relations of things and your faculty to originate thoughts and follow your own ideas.
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You are not noted for your power to apply thought and make it tangible and practical - Larger Comparison would give more power of analysis and ability to apply principles to even day life, you would then more readily see the affinities between principles and the wants of mankind. You have a good degree of [sevarity] of manner and youthfulness of mind and prefer younger society rather than the older. But the organ of Intuition is not particularly large, still owing to the strength and vigor of your intellect you may readily see the notions of other but this state of [Faculty is crossed out] mind is not the result of Intuition. Language is fully developed
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But you are more energetic and forcible than copiou, can write better than speak, are decidedly fond of music, appreciate good tones, have good memory of time events, excellent memory of places, are [not is crossed out] naturally sytematic, fond of order, quite inclined to arrnage and systematise, your thoughts are very much annoyed at want of system and method on business. Capacity in figures is good, you might excel in Mathematics and the Study of the Languages, have a good mechanical eye; are a good judge of proportions, forms and outlines but are not as ready in seeing adaptations of things, are more given to thought and investigation than of observations. 
	Reported Phonographically
		By
			E.S. Stark
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[enclosed a one page bibliography of works on Phrenology and Physiology published by Fowlers and Wells.]