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Chatham Wednesday 12 June 1776.

When I was with you this morning I did but half
my errands: I am therefore reduced to the necessity of
setting down in this place to supply the omission in
the midst of half a dozen people men women and
children.;> who distract my feeble brain to such a degree
that I cannot help doubting whether I shall be able
to make myself intelligible.

Part of my business to with you was to have begged the
favour of a note which it is in your power to give
as F.R.S. It is in behalf of Mr Nairne, an
eminent Mathematical-Instrument-maker; I believe the
most eminent Mathematical-Instrument-maker we have;
who is to be ballotted for an F tomorrow (that is Thursday)
sennight. I sounded Fordyce, and found that an opposition
was to be made, in which he (Fordyce) is principally seems to be
concerned. engaged. The ground that Fordyce mentioned
for it was a notion that some of them have taken up
that it is not right any artist in that branch should be
a Fellow of the R. S.: that if he were he might procure
an undue advantage to himself in the way of his trade
by stamping his title of F.R.S. upon his instruments.

I shall herewith enclose you an original letter, which from the subject of it I thought you
might be glad to see. It came to Mr Davis's this very day. The writer of it went out Master of
the Isis, and is now as he says, Lieutenant.

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Date_1	1776-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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