JB/169/130/003

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3 J. B. for Henderson to Gullet

agent, as you would in vain have looked for
in any other person. Ask yourself Sir, whether this
was not the case?+ a mine share, you well know nobody knows
better than yourself, is not a commodity to go to market with. The
rules of ordinary prudence are against having
anything to do with them in any way upon any terms: much
more against laying out money in the purchase
of them, especially so vast a sum as 4,000
guineas for a single sixty-fourth. If anything
could tempt a man of common prudence to venture
upon making himself an exception, it must be either
a judgment found by himself upon due examination
of the circumstances and value of some the particular
mine that is in question, or a reliance, and that
a very implicit one, upon the probity and judgment
of some other person whom he looks upon
as qualified for so delicate a task. Do you
have any person whom you think so well qualified
as Mr Henderson? Do you know of any other man
but Mr Henderson, on whose Mr Blair,
a man by no means ignorant or negligent of unattentive to
his own interest, would at such a hazard have
his faith? For the impracticability of
getting a purchaser in any other way, I need
only appeal to yourself. I I
to

Identifier: | JB/169/130/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
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Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field	jb for henderson to gullet
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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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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