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Dear Papa Friday June 12th 1751

It was with great pleasure that I received your
last letter, as it gave me such a surprizing account of dear Sammy's
improvement, which is so great, that it quite astonished me when,
I read your account of him, as he could not spell but above 10 or 15 words
at most when I went away from home, and those monosyllables: I long to
see him in his breeches, which I dare say become him extremely well.
Mr Jefferson has had a very bad disorder in his hand much worse
perhaps than Mr Blackley represented, but it is well now, so that
I suppose he will write to you soon: as he comes down stairs,
which he has not done this long while. he had two or three Abscesses
in his arm and hand which he was forced to have lanced, the pain
of which threw him into a Fever.— I am very glad to hear of
Mrs Cowley's good fortune, which I am sensible is no better than
he deserves, and propose to myself great pleasure as well as improvement
in taking a trip over to see him at Woolwich. I should be glad
to know of him when you see him next whether there was any Satellite
that attended Venus in her passage over the Sun, as some
of our people thought they saw one— now I am mentioning that, I
cannot help letting you know how by a piece of I hope not unwarrantable
boldness I got a sight of Madam Venus in her
transit, through the College Telescope. you must know the College
had not long ago a present of a Telescope. but you must know

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Date_1	1761-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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