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Yesterday I went to Boulter's and bespoke 6 boxes for my
papers. Length 13 — breadth 8¼ — depth 6. He promises
I shall have the latter end of next week.

How fares it with contra-ordinate proportion? Has
Pownoll's nonsense put it entirely to a stand?

I congratulate you on your change of habitation — tell
me when it is to take place. I am obliged to Mrs D.
for her invitation: but I see no great probability of my visiting
Chatham very soon. I must confess I do not feel any
violent propensity to go to a place where there seems to be a
determination to force a conversation upon a subject in which
I alone am, if any person is, interested, and on which it is
thought I choose not to converse. My silence and your silence
after her repeated importunities might I should have
thought have satisfied her that either I had no such plan
on foot, or that if I had I did not choose to communicate
with her on the subject. I suppose you have told her ere
this, what you know to be the case, that so far from being
jealous of young Forbes, I can have no possible objection to his
marrying any person that he and I are acquainted with. But
though this is now the case with respect to him, it may not
always be so with respect to every body: and if I do not put
a stop is not put to these sort of interrogatories in the first
instance, I can never engage in any plan of that sort, without
giving an account of myself to her: and furnishing a
topic of conversation to the whole circle of her acquaintance. It
is probable enough that if there had been any thing of that
sort upon the carpet, and I had been left at liberty I
might of my own accord have talked with her on the subject,
but I think it is somewhat singular if I am not to choose whether
I will or no. As to any thing more about Forbes, you may
imagine I do not wish you to fill up your paper with it: &
I suppose your curiosity respecting a person so little known to us
both is not strong enough to induce you to give her much

Identifier: | JB/538/074/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-11-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	074	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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