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I ought by rights to have written on Saturday night
to have told you that that evening came the conveyance of the Land from
W. By the hand I imagine it is of his own engrossing. I
have not yet looked it over so can not yet certify to you
whether it is free or no from the blunders which have
been but too frequent in the whole business

The day before I received a letter from Mrs W. announcing
the foregoing. It contained nothing material, & was only an
answer to one I had written to send her by her husband
letting her know of our reconciliation with Q.S.P. and
at last sent by the Post, upon W's not calling on me as he
said he would.

How came Mrs D. to tell her she would shew you &
me her letters? It will be a restraint to her, she will not
write in future with so much freedom.

Any advice I could give you about the manner
of informing Mr D. of the state of Ws affairs is not worth
a straw. It may be right to give him an explicit account
for the reasons you mention. As to his general character you
have not had quite so good means of informing yourself of it as I
have. As far as I can judge he has not any fixed principles
of dishonesty, but rather wants steadiness & consistency.
I have always found him very tractable and ready to
do implicitly whatever I proposed to him: but not sensible enough
to the ill consequences of the reputation of a want of punctuality,
to use the diligence he ought and might have used
in performing it. As to D's recommending him in very
strong terms to Ld H. I think you need not be much

Identifier: | JB/538/123/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	123	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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