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and more than I regarded myself as having any claim to.
Such as it was, the injunction implied in it has been fulfilled
by me, in so far as it has been in the power of the
completest secresy to fulfill it. An intimation, howsoever
obscure, of the part which I regard as having been taken by you in relation to the subject
in question I have heard read in some newspaper. From whatsoever
source the intimation may have come, nothing that I have said or done
can have contributed any thing to it. On this subject, by the bye, when
the time is ripe, I may perhaps have a somewhat new view
of the matter to submitt to you. What you and I agree in
wishing, might I think be compassed more effectually, as
well as extensively, than by any exercise that can be given
to a virtually dispensing power.

I will not willingly, Sir, tax, for mere civilities,
a time such as your's. Silence, continued for ten
days after this date, will be an answer.

Letter and answer will form an incident —
it may be an epoch — in our respective lives: not to say
in the future history of the habitable globe.

I am Sir
with the most unfeigned respect,
Yours
Jeremy Bentham.

Identifier: | JB/011/203/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field	jb to sec peel
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	w weatherley 1825
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr2
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public		ID Number	3900
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