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1785.4.28
Trinity College Cambridge
April 28. 1785

Dear Sir

I should have answered your letter much sooner, if it had not been for my staying to take an opportunity of one of my friends' going to London, that he might carry a dissertation, which I beg your acceptance of. It was written during the American war, and most probably never fell into your hands. In 1761, & 1762 I read with particular attention the principal Greek & Latin historians, & had many points in view, among which was colonization, that was not a party-question before the stamp-act passed. When I answered my antagonist, who is a Scotchman, I had nothing more to do, than to have recourse to my notes; which soon convinced me, that something more than an honest inquiry after truth prompted him to misrepresent the writers of antiquity; and, in fact, he was soon rewarded

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Date_1	1785-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	004	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john symonds	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[motif] gr]]
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 527, vol. 3; also partly printed in bowring, x, 138-9	ID Number	3305
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