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have any chance of persuading him (or indeed any body else
of that extreme difficulty which you say you find in it.
There are not many ways in which you can have it in
your power to oblige him; and when what he wishes you
to do, and that so obviously, in what is apparently at
least to your advantage, I really see not what you can have
to say that will appear plausible against it.
He always has been and always shall be he says, ready
to contribute do every thing in his power to contribute to
your happiness &c, &c, &c, and in one of the very
few occasions that you can have of doing any thing to oblige
him, would you peremptorily refuse it? If you ever
have any thing to ask him for he will be flinging this
in your teeth - and what "No - you will do nothing for
"me - I won't do any thing for you"— And what can
you have to say in your defence.

Wilson to whom I shewd your letter thinks you right
to comply; he smiles at your objections, and thinks them
without pronouncing them groundless, thinks them however
rather refined than satisfactory.

I can not see I must own the extreme hardship, of
looking out your pocket book at some certain time, either
immediately before you go to bed for example, or immediately
after you get up or immediately after dinner &c; and
if you have happened to lay out any money . since the
last of these times, to set it down, provided if you have had
no intermediate opportunity of doing it. If it should happen
you have laid out nothing within that period, why then the
trouble is saved. Advice - here I must make an end.

N.B. I do not understand that he expects to see your accounts, but only that you should
keep them for your own satisfaction — I will keep mine — if you will yours.

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Date_1	1776-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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