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1821)
Aug)
14)

J.B. Q.S.P.
to
Rush 31. Reston St
With the
from Milton's

Q.S.P. 14 Aug. 1821

My dear Sir,

When I had last the pleasure of
your company here, (I think it was last Saturday sennight),
in obedience to the desire you then expressed, I foreinised
to you for the purpose which you mentioned
namely that of a present to the Museum in Philadelphia
a portion of small piece of the materials of a house now belonging to me & seen by
held by me under the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
and seen by you from my garden to which it is contiguous:

The circumstance which gave rise to a desire which
without explanation would appear so singular is that the house
is one of those perhaps the only one recorded
as having had Milton for its inhabitant. At the very
time when this promise was made, already I meditated
the breaking of it to the ear, for though the the better fulfillment
of it to the imagination. A brick is even to
a proverb an uncharacteristic representative
of a house: a piece of mortar no better. It occurred
to me that the house contained a mass of matter, of
not unexportable bulk, such as though not characteristic
of the illustrious inhabitant, would to a degree which may
even

Identifier: | JB/012/036/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1821-08-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2796, vol. 10	ID Number	4097
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