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5. Appointing an Agent for conducting <add>carrying on</add> the correspondence.
My resid and upon occasion exhibiting the model.
1. My residence not being in London would
not answer the purpose. 2. The name of a man
like myself not in any way of business you
will see at first glance can not stand with propriety
at the bottom of an advertisement of this
sort. 3. My time will be sufficiently occupied
without being consumed in mechanical parts
of the business that may as well be done by
any body else. 4. I am not fond of accounts
nor of pecuniary responsibility and I dare
say your politeness will incline you to relieve me from both
these burthens. 5. My name at the bottom
of such an advertisement would publish the nature
of the business in the first instance to
many: and they would ask me what business I had with
schemers and manufacturers?

A man who by whose profession acts for it is to act for other
people covers every thing whatever is thought
proper to be covered. You, I presume, Sir,
have nobody in particular that you would prefer
in this view. In that presumption I take
the liberty of proposing a person particularly gentleman whose country- <add> a</add>




Identifier: | JB/117/037/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

5-6

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

037

Info in main headings field

Image

003

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

benjamin constant

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

draft of letter 711, vol. 4

ID Number

38654

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