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Your letter came to hand so late and the weather is so very bad,
that I doubt I shall not have time to send you the things
you mention. Wilson will not let you have silk garters
to your velvetr breechs — He says it betrays their
being Manchester & not Genoa — Besides Buckmaster
says no Lady wears them.
Wilson shew'd me just now a letter from his Father acquiescing in
his not going into the to Scotland as he had intended — He
talked at the same time of going into the country about
June — I asked him where? His answer was any
where, where I would. I shew him pieces of Mrs D's
letters, and she is growing more & more into favour with
him. He admires her writing greatly. As to your Battle
scheme I am still almost afraid to mention it to him myself.
I'll tell you what — I wish you would write a
letter to me about it proposing it to me as if it were for the first
time [of your mentioning it]
It is you likewise must mention it open the matter to the Ws. It were
best done I think in a letter to Mrs W. You must mention
it as proceeding entirely from yourself: you must also
tell a lie, and say I you mention it entirely without my
participation. This I make a point of; because if they thought
it was by my desire, it would lay them under difficulties:
They might embrace the proposal although they did not like it.
thinking themselves under obligation to me and not knowing
how to refuse it. You must tell them that you shall not
say a syllable to me about it till you hear what they say
to it: you must make a doubt about my being brought
into it. You must tell them that you are persuaded I should
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Jeremy Bentham |
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