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1827 Jan. 22
J.B. to Peel on G.Bs Letter to him

Sir

On the 17th instant my Nephew George
Bentham put into my hands, this letter of that date
with which you had honoured him. I owe it to being
yourself, as well as to him and myself to make
known to you that the fact of his having written it was, and the
altogether unknown to me. ⊞ ⊞ It was, without my by accident, as well as without my knowledge, dated (I said) from my house the family, it which he belongs to happening to be being at that very time upon the move. When the Bills in question were sent to me, no wish was expressed
that I should take cognizance of them, nor, if there had been
could I it have been complied with. I Not long
after his coming to England from Fran the neighbourhood of
Montpellier where his father and the family have for some years been living
upon an estate purchased there, I put them into his hands
saying that if he could say find any thing to say about them
on the subject of them that was worth sending I and your
experienced well known urbanity left no doubt of its very
well known at least as well received as it merited. His age is six and twenty; Till his
arrival here in August last I had not been held converse with him then since
twelve years he was a boy of fourteen. But from what I have now seen of him, I am
more gratified than surprised at the notion you have been
pleased to taken of him. He has just been entered of Lincoln's
Inn, and with his father and mother and his sisters
means I believe to divide his time between this country and
France. I find him eminently well qualified for assisting
me as he now does is doing in all my occupations,⊞ ⊞ so far as the aristocratical and French and Russian learnings of him and his side of the family will admitt, and possessed of in possession of no small
quantity of useful knowledge which I did not possess myself:
of the languages for example of various countries in which he has travelled and visited; with and of the state of affairs, in respect
of law, as well as the physical branch of art-and-science
and acquaintance with men and manners from the lowest
to the highest in France. Copies which he had from me of
two publications of his,⊞2 ⊞2 one of them a translation of a work of mine of the logical caste with additions and improvements and additions. A work of his own which I shall not see – an examination of Dr Whalely's Logic – is just ready for the press. I take the liberty of I and begging your acceptance of one, for
. Peel.
With true all respect to
Yours Jeremy Bentham

Identifier: | JB/011/242/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1827-01-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	242	Info in main headings field	jb to peel on gb's letter to him
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	3939
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