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spend two or three days with them — O Lord! if it be possible
take this cup from me. I shall make Wilson's indisposition
partly a reason partly an excuse for delaying it as long
as possible.

A day or two before I went to Colchester I saw my
Uncle. He is to spend some time at Southampton that Mrs
Gr. may bathe. He talked of (in a manner as if he intended
it) of going over to Portsmouth to see you. I suppose if he
does he will hardly take Madam with him. He talked likewise
about sending you some Venison. It may probably
go there while you are at Plymouth. Think therefore where
it will answer best for you to take a present of it, and write
me word, and I will send word to Mr Witchel. I have
not enquired; but I take for granted from what he my Uncle said, that he
is gone out of town by this time. I will therefore give him
a line to tell him of your not being at Portsmouth.

You may for ought I know have done very right in
going where you are: it was however a little disappointment
to me, the not hearing as I expected to have done this week,
the result of your double-rudder experiments. You must be,
I should think, in the way of accumulating anecdotes upon
anecdotes, & forming observations upon observations: I hope you
have not the laziness and the imprudence to trust the least
scrap of any of them for the space of four and twenty
hours to that most damnable of all treacherous faculties, the
thing which by an abuse of the King's English, you call your
memory.

Set down every thing the moment you hear it & when it comes
to a sheetfull send it to the post office G.W. The hog means
news for himself:
but I mean pies
for thine own use.

I spent my time very comfortably at Forsters: the people
all perfectly sociable & civil, and not too much so. They
pressed me a good deal to stay longer; which I should have done, had it

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Date_1	1778-08-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	221	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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