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Dear Sam
I was much pleas'd with your last Letter as it gave me to
understand, you had conform'd to the Recommendation of your Friends
Mr Randall & Mr Pownell, for I think you have great reason to
rank the latter in that Number, by the great Civilities he has shewn
you - and I hope you will not fail to make a point of
working & attending to the work alongside, some hours every day,
as it will answer the most material purpose for which you
are, where you are, and that you will consider it is the only
opportunity you will ever have, of making yourself an actual
Shipwright, & of knowing among other things, what is the Business
of a Quarterman, & how to perform it - since it may be absolutely
necessary for you to be a Quarterman, for a while at least -
when you are out of your time, if you have any notion of
continuing throughout in the Kings yard, and if not, the being a Quarterman
for a while, will contribute more to qualify you for a Merchants
yard, than you can be by any other means - tho' several of
your Friends here, such as Mr. Denoyer, Mr. Bromley of the
Navy office, & some others, seem to think you will hardly have
perseverance enough to take on in the Kings yard when you
are out of your time - as the application & confinement must be great —
more especially while a Quarterman. but in being alongside
you'll have that advantage, among others, of being able to Judge
of what belongs to such a Department and what will be —
incumbent on you, if you engage in it - as you cannot but be
sensible, your situation then, will be very different from what it
is now, wh for at present you are nothing more than a Volunteer
and in that respect circumstanced, as not one ever was before
you, in a Dock yard, nor probably ever will again -

I read that part of your Letter to Mr Randall, wch. gave me an
account of your working & a longside, wch. he much approved of,
and he talk'd of writing to Mr Pownell, to express his satisfaction
at the Civilities he had shewn you; than wch. nothing cod be more
friendly, as it mark'd the part he (Mr Randall) took in your -
wellfare; & upon his mentioning to me, that he thought it might be

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Date_1	1775-05-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	341	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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