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compleatly incompetent. I therefore write this to beg of you to form in
conjunction with Julien and Bodin with any others that may be destined to accompany
you a little Congress of Co-Legislators for the purpose of making
in concert an addition to my list after seeing Del Valle's, Herrera being duly
prepared to receive with correspondent gratitude any assistance which
you may respectively feel disposed to give. Dr Dumont will I hope help in
in what regards Natural History. I embrace with pleasure the frequent occasions I
to express my sense of what
the world of science owes to him.

In a separate sheet you will see a copy of what I have said of Del
Valle and Herrera in a letter to La Rayette which accompanies this.

In another two a copy of a long rigmarole a fatras the
substance of which I thought to have comprised in a few sentences of
this letter with a view to your translating it viva voce to Dr Dumont.
But it swelled insensibly to such a length, that I have eliminated
it, and sent it separate to save you from being plagued with it.

I had business enough upon my hands, as you will see, without being loaded
with this additional quantity: but the more you know of Del Valle, and
of the new born State, on the destiny of which he is I hope destined to
exercise so commanding an influence, the less you will be surprised
at the degree of sympathy with which they have inspired me. I must break off;
I feel quite fatigued and oppressed with the sense of the load which still
has laid upon my old and tottering shoulders: and of what I am
thus ungratefully attempting to transfer a part upon your stronger ones.
Is it no compliment, but strict truth to say that I never lay my head on my
pillow without thinking of Rue du Faubourg St Jaques No 92: it is the little
for which I was indebted to your sons kindness. Jeremy Bentham.

Identifier: | JB/012/374/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1827-01-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	374	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	w & c 1825
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public		ID Number	4435
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