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My dear Sam My Brother who is at Chatham
London night April 30th
How shall I find words to describe
to you the scenes I have within these
few days been a witness of & an actor in! You will
never know how to wonder enough at some
part of the story I have to tell you: but
your wonder will be a most joyful one.
Conceive my mother, our mother I must
from henceforward call her, acting the
part of most zealous disinterested friend,
to me and you will conceive no more than what
is most unquestionably true. The grand
discovery has been made: and probably before
this I conclude this letter, my destiny will
be definitely settled:
Monday morn 6 o'clock
I don't know where
to begin hardly, nor where to choose, among
the multitude of things I could wish to tell
you. I must touch upon every thing as
slightly as possible.
I have not yet heard form Capt: Carleton
in answer to the Volume which I shewd
you. Nor do I wonder at it, since the dispatch
of that volume was retarded, by some
circumstances that intervened, till Tuesday
last. Nor am I much concerned about
it, as my fate will not turn upon it
at all.
It was on Friday the discovery was made
I dined at Q.S.P. Taking a turn in the garden after dinner,
my mother came up with me —
"So Mr Jerry, I hear strange stories of
"you" — Indeed, Madam? what stories?"
with a look of some anxiety — "Oh, no
"harm at all, only that you are a
"smitten with a pretty
"I ask you whether it is so or no"? — I
could not have wished for a fairer opportunity
Her looks were kind — My stomach was quiet,
I was in a conversable humour. My Father
had been just then telling me of a piece
of good fortune that had happened in the
falling in of a Reversion of about £40 a
year. We were all in high spirits upon
the occasion and a party had been formed
to go down to Pyenest
as day, to
take a view (for some legal purposes) of the
new acquisition. I am this instant setting
out, and so good morning to you.
Wednesday
The affair ending so unhappily
I had not the heart to finish my narrative:
so this letter was never sent.
To be short, my Uncle who had promised
me his house, retracted. He
and my Father (my Uncle tho' a well-meaning
man is of a cold misgiving
apprehensive temper) set one another against
my wishes: and all my Mother-in-Law
could say on my behalf was
unavailing.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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