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J.B. for Henderson to Gullet

duration of that correspondence, and you can not,
I am sure, be at a loss to perceive that for the
share he bore in it some recompense at least was
due. Revolve the circumstances in your mind a
little more particularly, and you will recollect
that the business has been of such a nature and
such a constancy as to take up for a course of
thirteen months or more a very large proportion
not to say the greatest part of his time. Serving
you with diligence fidelity, and above all with
success, with such a degree of success as no other person man
other agent eve served you with before, I will be bold to say, as
no other agent you could have pitched upon could have served
you with, I think he may stand excused if he expected
that such his recompense should have born some proportion
to the service. To make a just estimate
of the value of that service may not be quite
so easy. The mere time consumed, even of a
man in his line possessed of the ordinary measure
of intelligence competent to a man that
line, this consideration I say would of itself
be far from affording a just measure for the
recompense. To succeed in such a business required
such a degree of confidence on the part of the purchaser, such a
reputation as well for skill intelligence as for probity in the
agent,

Identifier: | JB/169/130/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field	jb for henderson to gullet
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied close in the manner of a letter upon common writing paper of the size of this" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	56950
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