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the business. This must of course be dependent
upon its success. The sum, therefore, if advanced
as a loan, may become in effect a gift. I
have found it so in almost every parallel
case I have had to do with. To what extent
the value of Mr Rey’s labours may constitute
a claim on the fund which beneficence
devotes to mankind, it is for you to determine.

I should wish to relieve his anxiety by
as early an answer as may be.

No 4 Trinity Square
4 Dec 1821

I called on Bailey — Holborn. He will call
at Q.S.P. to look at the Grape wall, for the
purpose of making an estimate of the cost of a
frame. Finding that he does a good deal in the
house-warming-line I begged him also to look
at your apparatus for that purpose. As a tradesman
he was ready enough to go in the way of his business,
but when the name of Jeremy Bentham was given him
the intensity of the excitement was obvious, and he was
anxious to know at what hour he would be most
likely to see you.

Identifier: | JB/010/087/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1821-12-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	no 4
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	william effingham lawrence	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2830, vol. 10	ID Number	3523
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