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I will now copy a scrap I had written to thee, immediately upon the receipt
of your first to Mr Davies. I left off, fearing the paper might be too thick.
Dit mille graces, mon cher I am, (car mille ne sufficient pas) pour la
letter que j'ay recue ce moment par l'entremuse de Mr Davies. J'y
vois la bonhomie du mon chere frère, avec toute la ligerete Francoise.
Vous avez meme attrapee quelque mots characteristiques de la langue,
que vous avez seu pour la plupart mettre assez bien a leur
place. Courage, mon petit bijou, (aussi petit par rapport a moi
que vous ecrit cela qu'un Lannitor (hornet) vis a vis l'un guesse) si je
ne suis pas plus mauvais prophete que tous les douze ensemble, vous
ne manquerez pas de tourner votre sejour bien a profit. Accrochez
vous sur-tout a cette belle dame qui a cue la Conte de vous
preter son dictionarire — Tellement quellement, d'un facon ou d'autre
faites vous en entendre.
Write to me once more, to tell me of your destination, (if
you know it) till your return. I hope you will go to Paris,
if it be but for a day or two. Make a hard push for it.
Is anything settled between you and the Davies's about meeting
at Battle? If Q.S.P. were to return by way of Brighthelinstone, it
would not be I believe, a great deal out of your way. They might
then put you down, in the Equipage &c. If you think there is anything
feasible in this, I would open the matter to my Father by letter:
and, if requisite, to Mr Davies. He might be desired to mention
it as a scheme of his own, to Mrs Davies. You know I suppose,
of old Ackworth's death, and that the Widow is to be with her
two daughters by turns, and that D is g looking out for a larger
house.
I have a scheme in my head, which I will mention to you,
that you may have somewhat to look forward to perhaps with a
little pleasure. It is this. Davies wrote to me to ask me to go down
to Chatham in your absence. This, for many reasons I declined. Hindrance
to my studies, Fordyce's lectures, you not there. How my book hastens to a
completion. I shall want an amanuensis to transcribe it for the proof and I
should like to read it over to you and Mr D. You scrutinize more closely
a vast deal than Mr Lind: and you would take more interest in a
work of mine; than he does in his own. And Mr Davies would certainly
be now and then of some use. I wonder whether Chatham
could furnish a correct and fluent amanuensis: or in short any
amanuensis — My Tom is so drawling he won't do at all. There
would be somewhat sociable in our Triple points: our Trinity if you please
And by that time Miss Ousinam perhaps may be returned; and we might
have some Music.
As D. will have a larger house (with some little assets to support it, who
knows but it might be possible to get the fair incognita there, some
time or another. If my health were to hold especially, we could court her
together to perfection. Lincoln's Inn Tuesday 12 Sept. 1775
Adieu —
This is Baskerville's paper is it not beautiful? Poor Bark: is dead
& we shall have, perhaps, no more
A Mons:r
Mons:r Bentham (Le fils)
chez. Mons:r
Mons:r Le Hardi
Rue St Jean
Caen
France.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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