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When your letter came, I was not returned from in town not but that but
I have been long enough returned to answer it before now —
Je vous en demande mille pardons, mon cher frere.
Mr Simmon's paper has been left at Lord Shelburne's for
Dr Priestly. I kept it for some time to shew to a friend or
two of mine not then in town. Their opposition of it seems to
be, that it is more ingenious than satisfactory. Dr Priestly
has been in France this summer: and is but just returned.
He is now in the Country: at Calne in Wiltshire, where his residence
is, near Lord Shelburne's.

What hast thou to do with strings for & those who hast
no money to pay for them? And to blaspheme my taste, and
ask me in the same breath to do thy dirty business! And what
signifies my by buying the obligatory substance? how art thou to
have it?

As to the put-off about money — thank thyself for it. Thou knowest
thou hast been often bidden to produce regularly thy accounts;
thou knowest that thou oughtest to do it: for saving always and
expecting the article of pocket money, thou canst have no objection
thou canst have no reason for wishing to conceal the items of necessary
expences. If our father send thee not money so soon as
the account shall have been produced, I will.

Again as to the slick-string. Thou wilt not trust me with the buying it:
seeing that in that one article (I hope thou hast the grace to subjoin
that Combative proposition). I am not a man of taste. Why am I
not a man of taste? Whence comest thou to think for? Because I

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Date_1	1774-11-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	314	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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