JB/169/132/003

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Blair. Mr Blair not coming up at that time
to the price you demanded, you wrote to Mr
Henderson for the express purpose of commissioning
him to look out for some other purchasers. Mr
Henderson is from that time your agent, and
nobody's but your's. He takes indefatigable pains:
he applies to a Mr Forbes, to a Mr Douglas: both
of them men of great wealth and enterprize. He
converts to your use the extensive & reputable connections he
has acquired, and the confidence with which he
is treated by them in proportion to the opportunities
they have had of knowing him. In the nick of time A society
happens to be is lately formed composed of opulent as well as
learned men who take the circulation of mineralogical
intelligence for one of their principal
objects. There one would think if any where should be found
the purchasers you want. Known and respected
in that society and one of the chief supports
of it, he applies to every member whose circumstances
or connections afford the least probability
of his answering your purpose. He
applies to General Melvill late Governor of the ceded
Islands in the West Indies:[+] he presses the General
into your service. The General, an old friend of thinking to serve
Mr Henderson's, esteeming and respecting him to a
degree of which I his Excellency he I mean the General has afforded

[+] a man of the most
extensive connections, a
well known patron of
every thing that bears
the name of science.

Identifier: | JB/169/132/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	132	Info in main headings field	jb for henderson to gullet
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / / / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	56952
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