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Monday April 10 1778. Linc. Inn.
Your letter just received. My Father called on me yesterday.
I read to him part of your last: the whole you know it was not to be
trusted to him. We had deep consultation about it while alone; and
when your female friend was of the party violent disputes. I was going
to say: and such the conversation would have been if the violence had
been reciprocal. She will absolutely run distracted if you do not work
along side: and so will Mr Palmer. She was certain in one breath that
there will be no possibility of your having a place unless you have
done the work of other apprentices: and therefore that is the absurdest
thing imaginable for you to think to exempt yourself from the work of other apprentices.
She was certain in the same breath (and especially when my
Father seemed to dwell with something of complacency on your ambition of
being Surveyor, and your notions of striking out improvements) she was
certain I say that it was a very absurd notion (I don't mean that
she used the word "absurd" this time) that of your attaching yourself to the
Kings Yard. She was certain there was impossibility of rising to the place of Surveyor but through
without passing through every inferior gradation. She was certain, and so my Father always is,
that there is no possibility of being appointed to any one of the Offices
concerned in the building part without having served out a regular
Apprenticeship. You have never indeed satisfied me on this head:
Be sure and do; furnish me with proper proof and instances, if
you know of any, to lay before my father. In the midst of
it in dropped Mr Randal. He wrote it seems very early to
Pownel in your favour. My Father read to him your last letter
together with Davies's, who is a great favourite. Mr R. acceded
to your division of the points of knowledge in a Shipwright, and
gave a name to your second branch, which (the name I mean) I
have forgotten, as I did not think it it did not appear to strike me
be an apposite one. "Computing" , or "comparing", or some such
word. He allow'd that Pownel's notions were "old fashioned" in
regard to the necessity of manual labour to be understanding of the
theory, and in regard to the soundness of the Mold-loft. It was a Sanctum
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