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Wednesday Octr 29th 1760.

Dear Papa

I did not receive your letter with the parcel till yesterday
night & was surprised to see it dated as last Friday: for it was
left I suppose at Mr Bowles's by Mr Malchair: but I did not
know of there being one, 'till Mr Bowles told me of it yesterday
evening. I begin now to live very comfortably having made several
Acquaintance. one of them is Mr Grisdale the Provost's Nephew
who is a Scholar at this Colledge: & one Mr Chambers who plays
very well upon the fidle: Mr Pritchard too and I are pretty intimate.
it was Mr Cowper that introduced me to the acquaintance of
Mr Chambers;&Mr Pritchard to that of Mr Grisdale, tho' he
knew nothing of him himself: which perhaps may seem strange
to you. Mr Pritchard called on me (on the Evening of the day that
you went from Oxford,) to take a walk, as a beginning of a future
Acquaintance, and by chance met with this Mr Grisdale in
the Quadrangle, & desired him to shew him my Chambers, so
they both came together to me, and carried me a walking. I
have been in Mr Cowper's room for a day or two, while My Grate
was mending; for he and I are very intimate.
Last night Mr Aldersey came to town, but did not lie in
Colledge: but I was not so sorry at his coming, as I should have
been at first: for that uneasiness soon wore off; and in two
or three days time I did not care whether he came or no: he
was very obliging (as I am told by the bedmaker) for I was not

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Date_1	1760-10-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	041	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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