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Ay, do my dear Sam, come up - on Friday as
thou sayest — I shall be glad to see thee
A very good opportunity of learning Watchmaking has
presented itself to me - and I shall probably have
availed myself of it before you come - R. King
at G. Coffee-House is a Watchmaker by Trade, and
has some Watcher "motions" by him which he has
engaged to take to pieces for my instruction — The Dr
referred me to him —' He himself [viz: the Dr] could
not undertake the Job - And when you come up
may very likely take a lecture together

Shall I tell thee —? Yes verily I will — There is
to be a Board of Longitude I understand, on Saturday
and I hope to be at it with my memoir - I hope
I say if possible — I am working double tides for that
purpose — I am not absolutely determined whether it would
be better for you to be there or not - However, in
case it should be determined for your being there - you
had better be provided with a decent suit of clothes to
appear in viz: your second best — I don't mean the
French ones. Q.S.P. will be in the country Friday & Saturday,- So
that you have nothing to fear from him -

I shall have to two or three of the Board a recommendation
from Foster of Colchester - a much more strenuous
one than I should get from Poore. Poore however is in
Town and I shall make what use I can of him.

Wednesday May 15. 1776.

My Love to Mrs D. Make an exact drawing (a neat one, fit to shew) of the apparatus for winding up and regulating without
admitting the Air; and bring it up with you. - The Commissioners are most of them stupid fellows, I understand c I will
suppose nothing - Get if possible the proper names for the several parts of it - Call at Nairnes if you can and get
the name of his new inve fringe - & borrow one of them too if you can to produce — - You might even say what it was for.

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Date_1	1776-05-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	027	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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