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You see the situation I am in. My hopes very much
diminished, but however not absolutely extinguished
We shall see what may be the result of a vivâ voce explanation.
How I long for their return!
A few words about your affairs
I was at Q.S.P. as I said on Wednesday. We
talked a little about you My Father asked me if I had
heard from you. I told him no — not since I saw you
at Chatham — forgetting your the letter you wrote since. He
asked me whether he was to hear from you. I told him
I supposed he would but mentioned as a reason for your
not having written the discouragement you were under on account
of your not receiving any answer to a letter or two
you wrote previous to your seeing him at Kingston. I
understood after all that he expected to hear from you again
therefore you must write. All the account that I could get from
him of the reason of his not having answerd those of your's was
your "bolting in upon him in that manner". This was repeated
over and over again — when I pressed him for an explanation
I at last got from him that he was displeased because the shortness of your
visit gave him no opportunity of talking with you in private
and the old story of want of confidence: He would wish to have
known of I suppose about the Longitude scheme directly from yourself: and he
to know every time of your coming up to town beforehand: in
short that you should ask his leave to come up to town: to go
every where where you go: and in short to do every thing you do.
Upon the whole however he was in very good humour: and I did not
say much in opposition to this because I did not care to anger him.
The result of all is that you must write; You may mention as an inducement that
you heard from me he wished it: and that if you wrote (which indeed he said) he would answer you
Not that any thing you are likely to say is likely to satisfy him. He expects I suppose, or at least would be glad to have
a penitential letter: or at least a letter full of expressions tion to which his behaviour never will give him any title.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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