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15 Apr. 1826

Ac 1792 on

Lady Bentham ( Mrs Fordyce) to J.y Bentham
with the result of rescurches relative to the number of Bankers?

whether for the purpose of J .B.'s Ms

Paper Mischief.

The greatest generals sometimes fail: then do not dismiss
an unsuccessful subaltern your service; fortune may be kinder on a future occasion

I have sought in vain for information among the Windmill that books;
Dr. Baillie has never met with any on the subject— he promises to ask Coutts
& Drr Coombe — Dr. Coombe is most likely of all the men I know to inform
us. If you like to enquire of each house the year of its establishment
I can apply to Snow&Deane , & to Coutts.—

The enclosed was received this afternoon.

These are London directories as far back as 1758 in which bankers
names are inserted in the list of tradesmen, but I fear it would
be extremely difficult to procure them.

MS. F.

Monday eveng:

Identifier: | JB/115/033/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1792	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	033	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	lady bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[motif] gr]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note 2 to letter 1015, vol. 5	ID Number	37408
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