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Queens Col. Friday Dec. 4 1760.
Dear Papa
I think we have been at cross purposes with one another
in our letters for some time, occasioned I must confess, by a neglect
of mine to write to you hitherto as often as I should have done
and then sometime after you have sent your letter, you have received mine,
and then sometime after you have wrote me another letter chiding
me for not writing to You, and a day after perhaps you have
received another from me, and so on. both the letters that you
wrote me, came at once, but no Mr Skeates along with them. — all
our Verses were shewn up last Monday sen'night or fortnight I think it
was, but I shewed up mine to Mr Jefferson 2 or 3 days before; he
liked them very well, & seemed pleased. all the Verses are to be given
up to the Provost, who is to chuse which he thinks best, or if he
has a mind, none at all. but I can neither acquaint you when they
are to be printed, nor who amongst us make them: tho'I believe
most do. I have seen Chambre's Verses and Cooper's; they are both
very good Copys of English Verses; I will get them both for you if I
can; tho' don't depend upon't: the Cambridge Verses to be sure are
not extraordinary considering the rank that a good many of

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Date_1	1760-12-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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