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even he pronounced felicitous, present itself as characteristic
enough of the time. & moreover for is and what is more he concluded
with full assurance to have habitually been pressed
by the hand of this object of your patriotic & cosmopolite
idolatry in the course of his travels in his state of
blindness up & down the staircase of the ballustrade:
of which it constituted — (I am not architect enough
to denominate by its appropriate name, I will
therefore in prime plain english style it) the prime
support. When I have next the pleasure of grasping
in mine your sympathetic hand, I will if you
have no objection, place you in the interior of the house
where in the correspondency between the detached part
you now have, & the remainder which preserves its
place, you will be satisfied that it this sample is no counterfeit.

Upon mentioning this incident yesterday to a
friend of mine, he told observed to me that, as your Philladelphian
Museum was so fond of relics, he thought it
might

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might be in his power to supply it with one, which
though not exactly on the same account, yet by a
similar operation of the principle of the association
of ideas might be rendered not altogether unacceptable.
It is a portion of the so highly celebrated internal
roof of Westminster Hall, which for the
purpose of giving the preparations made on the
of the late it was deemed necessary giving
additional light to one of the courts of justice, it
was some little time ago thought necessary to cut
into. Of the genuineness of this relic such as it is,
I have not myself any the smallest doubt: My
friend is no jester or scorner. He is Walter Coulson
a former amanuensis & disciple of mine: at present
Editor of the Traveller Newspaper, the opinions &
affections of which are in such perfect & uniform
accordance with your's & mine on the earthly part
of the field of thought & action, It is with the purest
satis

Identifier: | JB/012/036/002 "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	002	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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