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instance, she will be obliged to provide herself elsewhere. it is either a
Brother of that Mr Harcourt's or he himself that occupies occasionally
an apartment in a house in Queen's Square Place kept by a person of the name of Wells.
It is the second house on the right hand going from Queen's Square
Place. Her connection with the Harcourt family has often brought
her to that house: and Mr Harcourt who occupies that apartment
not being in Town, she was in case of necessity to have made use of
it as a temporary repository for her furniture. It was there I suppose
she heard of your apartment. A Miss Elliot, Sister to
Admiral Elliot, who lives at Colchester, and with whom together with
his wife and this sister I was in company once at Mr Gray's,
this Miss Elliot, it seems, who lives lodges in the same house (Wills's)
accompanied by Mrs Sarney to Mrs Delap's; to make enquiries
concerning the terms, and to bespeak her recommendation. Mrs Sarney
told Mrs Delap that she once had a house in Baker Street
which it seems is in the neighbourhood: and gave her to understand
that she then lived in a stile much superior to that she was
reduced to appear in at present. I suppose that was in the life-time
of her husband. She told Mr Delap that she was well acquainted
in the neighbourhood; that she knew (not that she had any intercourse
with) my mother: but that she had used to visit Mrs Buckle: and
when I saw her this afternoon, she told me she had been to visit
Mrs Buckle within this day or two upon the occasion. I have not
been (indeed there has been no time for my going to to Mrs Buckle's, to
hear particulars of Mrs S. from the first hand: very likely I may
between this and the time of my receiving your answer: though I think
there seems ground enough already to conclude she would be a desirable
Tenant. When I waited upon his at Somerset House this afternoon
she happened to be walking in the court with a lady who has apartments
there, whose name I had occasion to learn was Townsend. It is my opin-

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Date_1	1775-09-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	359	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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