JB/009/034/002

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1819

d Sir,

I lose no time in acknowledging the receipt of the
Pamphlet with the accompanying Letter with which you
have honoured me. It may be a long time if ever before the
state of my time and my eyes will admit of a regular perusal
of it; I mean the Pamphlet. But there is scarce a page over
which my ivory cutter has not found its way and in which
my name with words short or smooth or both tacted to it
have not already met my eye. What with cuts and what with
plaisters, if my portrait were to be drawn as I come out of
your hands, I see already I should look like the man in the
Almanack. Be assured,at the same time, that, in whatsoever
degree I may find myself scarified, no ideas other than pleasant
ones will I am sure stand associated in my memory with
your name whatsoever may be the depth and number of the
scarsifications. I see already it can not but have cost you
more or less pain to give them, and it has it will not have cost me none any at
all to receive them. Unacquainted as you are with my person
and my habits, the truth of what I have been saying, but my
feelings on this occasion may naturally enough been your

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Identifier: | JB/009/034/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1819	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	034	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft, not sent; see note 18 to letter 2538, vol. 9	ID Number	3335
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