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commission given in general terms, without any
stipulation liquidating the mode & or quantive of payment,
in short just as Mr Henderson was by
you for the mine - share and for the litharge
which I amongst other things I have passed by
unnoticed. What proportion of his time Mr
Playfair gave to this agency I can not as yet pretend
to say: all that I know is that it could not be
much.: [+] for the mechanical businesses which [+] certainly not so much as the share nothing which which in equal periods you employ'd Mr Henderson employ'd for you; scarcely soI dare believe not so much in the three years as he employ'd for you in one.
are very numerous and very complicated, occupying
a large building and a great multitude
of hands, as I myself can witness having gone over
them rested can witness, rested entirely upon him as well for
the residing part commercial as the manufacturing part,
exclusively upon him: and as to ingenuity and
skill, in the agency business every thing of that sort was plainly out of the question:
[+] Tother day the partnership broke up; Mr [+] any common Clerk might have done just as well as a Mr Playfair or even a Mr Henderson.
Playfair thereupon claimed a satisfaction was due for his
trouble in this agency: that a satisfaction was due was admitted
at the first word. The question was how
much: Mr Playfair claimed, I forget what:
it came however first or last to £500 £270. Mr
Blair, dissatisfied with him to the highest degree,
Mr Blair by no not disposed to give him a penny
more than he was sure the law would give him
Mr Blair a very honourable man but a man by no means out of a man of great commercial other experience, ac- the
value of time or money of his own interest acquainted, no man better with the value of
claim and paid the money. demand time and money, acquiesced in the demand All this if you think
proper you may hear from Mr Blair and Mr Playfair [+] [+] and, if unhappily it should be necessary, in a Court of Justice.

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Identifier: | JB/169/136/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field	jb for henderson to gullet
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f19 / f20 / f21 / f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56956
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