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2d. He would be glad you could give him some instructions
what to say on the score of merit; what the improvements are
you have in view. For this purpose I think it may be
necessary or at least useful for you to give him a brief account
of your projects under the (12 or 13 heads I think there
are of them) you have collected For example the analysis,
the contract scheme, the discovery (as you look upon it to be) of two circumstances never
till as yet hitherto attended to that influence the going of the ship
[two forces that tend to alter it's velocity & direction. Don't go
to make a long-winded affair of it; for that will never do,
nobody will read it, but give the titles only, or at most only
a short explanation of the titles.

I told him I would write to you to night for these very purposes,
& I do hereby write to you accordingly.

What you say to him on the above two heads I think had better be in two
papers; the latter to be shewn to persons to whom it might be
not necessary or not advisable to shew the former

3dly You must likewise mention with whom you served your
time, when you enterd and when your apprenticeship expired.

Quant a une affaire dont je vous ai parlè ci-devant
cette lettre ci doit être comptè pour rien.

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Identifier: | JB/538/160/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1778-01-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	160	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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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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