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Oct 19 2
Madam!
Encourag'd by your obliging Request wch. to me cod. not fail to
have ye force of a Command, I presume to acquaint trouble you
with a few Lines to acquaint you with our safe arrival
at London after a Journey wherein we were more favoured
by good weather than good Company, tw wch. was -
nothing better than a Master of a small Trading vessell
to Bristoll from New England of wch. he was a Native &
who had been just lately taken by a French Privateer & not long
before had been for two or three years a Prisoner in -
Spain, a meer Tar who as ye Water was his proper Element
steer'd his Conversation by ye Compass, have very
little to say to us unless we let him take us along with
him into America whither his Discourse as naturally tended
& continually to lead us, as ye Needle to ye north point
but as we were oblig'd to take him for better, for worse
a Stage Coach being a sort of Matrimony for a time in ye respect
we on our Part made ye best of him & he on his part
put on his best words wch. you know is as usual for
Travellers to do, as it is for 'em to put on ye worst
Cloaths - but tho I have told you given you some heed of the
indifferent Comp'y we with us to Town — it is

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Date_1	1744-10-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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