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My dear Sam

You ask my Father, whether I am alive
'tis a severe question I cannot but be sensible of the reproach contained in it: I acknowledge
the justice of it: and submitt myself to your forgiveness.
One principal cause (I believe I must not say justification)
of my silence has been, the looking upon your condition
on which if it had been possible, nothing should have been wanting
on my part to alleviate, as that in which a person is
little able to be studious of any thing but present care, or to interest himself
much in any persons or things but what exist in the narrow
circle of his chamber.

This instant (since the writing of the word chamber) a letter
from you is brought me . It gives me great pleasure to
find by the case and by the vivacity, by the precision of it ,that
however severe your late illness may have been, it has left
your spirits as well as your faculties, improved (I can't
write of one thing for thinking of another shame on my faculties)
improved I was going to say, ( if it be in the nature of any
illness to have such an effect ) rather than impaired.

" Dead or alive" ? alive & alive like — "Sick or well " ? So, so —
plagued for some little time past with coughs and nose blowing
and such like petty ailments. "affronted or not" ? affronted
a little, till I heard of your being ill, about not seeing you &
Burket — that is affronted nisi as we Lawyers say

Identifier: | JB/537/277/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1774-03-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	277	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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