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I have been looking about for the Scaphandre, my dear
Sam, but cannot find it any where - I have a sort of
a half notion of your having it yourself.

I do not recollect saying any thing to you in my last
letter or any letter since I saw you about any uneasiness -
Throug God's mercy I have no particular uneasiness that I

Perhaps if you are very good and the Marine Dictionary
costs no more than a guinea, I may let you have it.

Have there been no letters yet from Mrs W. besides what
I saw, and what you mentioned?

I don't believe I have ever had the grace to make an
apology to my dear Mrs D. for opening that letter of Mrs W.
that I sent: but I looked upon it as included in the general
engagement & permission.

Now Mr N. is with you I suppose you will take the advantage
and consult him about your Pelican. Poor thing it has
lain along time neglected in your garret, like a Pelican in the wilderness.

I have been told there have been two attacks upon Dr Adam
Smith by the godly, for testifying that David Hume died in peace
There was a little grinning-prig Oxford Parson t'other day at
Q.S.P. of whom Madam asked whether he had seen the
answer to the Humean impiety; meaning one of those.

I met Your dear friend Dr Chelsom deed at Q.S.P. last Thursday.
He talked in magnificent terms of the character of a Christian Divine
Talking of Parson Horne's quitting the Church for the Law, he took notice
of it as somthing singular: it was the first instance he said
he had known of a man's quitting the higher profession for the
lower.

May 6. 1777.
Linc. Inn.

Make my Compliments to Mr & Mrs Nairne —
Love to Mrs D.
Desire Inv. if ever she happens not to know what to
do with herself, to take pen in hand, & give me the history of Patty D.'s departure.

Identifier: | JB/538/120/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-05-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	120	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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