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As to the dissatisfaction he expressed to you,
respecting me you should have consider'd that no free
occasion for it could possibly have intervened since
we parted. And whether I told you or no but
so it is, at that time there was all the appearance
of amity in his side imaginable. You
must know by this time that nothing that I can do, or you
can do or any body can do, in short nothing
that can happen, can make him easy for
two days together: to what purpose then distress
me with the recital picture of his discontents?
The talk then was, he was to disinherit me for not
"opining" to him: now he had never talked to
about disinheriting me before, even when I was
quite shut: and you know I have open'd to
him of late about my work, which for the
moment gave him great satisfaction. I rather
think he will not disinherit me; nor would
even were I to marry: but if he does it is
what I have again and again thought of, and
what I am thoroughly prepared for. My Mother's
Marriage settlement will keep me from
starving. What I have at present, was, I have
reason to think comprized in it. I am entirely
convinced that there is nothing whatever I could
do that would secure me from against such occasional
expressions of his disfavour: If I was to open
to him to the utmost till word , deed & even thought: I
that would not do. He would could not know but there
might be more behind unopen'd. This also I
would have you know, that were I certain
or dishonour depended upon it, I would
not be bound to be constantly with him, and give
up my time to the round of company he keeps
Your offers my dear Sam, are what I might expect
from a Brother at the period of life you
are at, and not insensible to the zeal with
which in every way I have been able to devise
I have for such a course of years endeavoured to deserve well of him.
Of the sincerity with which they were made, I
can make no doubt: but it is not on them
that I can place any dependence. At present
every thing almost that you value yourself for, or
yourself on, you seem to think you owe to me. All
your pleasures almost you either ascribe to, or look for from

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Date_1	1775-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	357	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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