JB/538/092/001

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Lieut.t Obrien's books you have nothing to do with — They
are only about Naval evolutions &c. The use to be made
of Ships when built, not the method of building them.

Th This afternoon I carried Elmsly my Incas. I told
him the terms - 3gu:s pr sheet the translation (24 12mo pages
rather loosely printed) He told me immediately "he imagined there
would be no difficulty about giving that price: but said there was another
to be concerned with him. I then told him that I could let him
have a sheet a week but I could not be answerable for any
more. At this he looked a little blank - and what could I
do no more than a sheet a week? Yes certainly I said, if
I were to do nothing else: but that I would not sacrifice my
whole time to it on any consideration. Ah! says he that's the
thing — I wish you were a poor Devil that wrote for bread
like those I give 27s or 28s a sheet to - I would make you
do 2 or 3 Sheets in a week for me. I recommended it
to him to shew what I had done to some friend whose judgment
he could depend upon, that he might judge whether it would
be worth his while to give so high a price: And I proposed to him Mr Gibbon: adding that I
could not take upon me to say it would be worth his
while to give it; only I knew it would not be worth my
while to take less. He answer'd that nobody should see it
but himself. I told him that if we did not agree, what I
had done which amounts to about a sheet he should be
welcome to. At this he thanked me, as you may imagine
concluded with desiring him to let me know his determination
as soon as was convenient to him, that I might take
my arrangements accordingly — He said, that he certainly
should for his own sake, as there was no time to be lost.
He certainly has a great mind to have it done by me. For
when I shew'd hi pulled out of my pocket the packet which
I had brought with the printed sheets in it, & began telling him

Identifier: | JB/538/092/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-01-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	092	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number
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