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My Father called on me yesterday and shew'd me the letter
he had received from you relative to Pownal. It answer'd every
purpose you could wish - the old gentleman seemed wonderfully
pleased with it - You may imagine I did not labour very
hard to weaken the impression I saw it made on him. He
talked of transferring you to Portsmouth if Pownal should prove troublesome
to you. This I mention only to let you see that you
have got him over to your side in regard to working alongside.

While I was writing as above, in came Alderman Clark:
and whil soon after in came your letter for which by the
bye I paid a groat: not thinking to quarrel with the Postman
about it for the pleasure it gave me - Ald: C. being
in the way I thought it would do you no harm to shew it him.

I reproached myself as soon as it was too late for not sending
you a line by Mrs Davies. I dont know how it happen'd but
it did not so much as come into my head at the time that
such a thing was feasible. I believe the case was that I expected
to have had a letter to answer from you in answer to one of mine before Mrs Davies
went, and not receiving any such letter, thought there was nothing
for me to say - You were a very good boy for sending me those
extracts, and I a very bad one for not telling you so before.

Forbes, Culloden Forbes an admirer of Fanny Nairne's? you
surprize me? How should the connection acquaintance come? tell me all you
do or can know about it &c.

The Mare is not sold - she was put up at Tattersal's - nobody
bid for her. But Q.S.P. was told by Clark [his old Landlord
Leech's Executor] (who had been in partnership with Beaver
the Horse-Auctioneer) that if kept till the spring she might probably
fetch 10 or 20 guineas; and was advised not to take under
12. So she is sent to Pyenest to grass where she will stay the

Identifier: | JB/538/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-11-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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