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Sir
Your civilities kindness to my a Brother who is my second self haves been
the means of my giving you this trouble. Stranger Amongst the
many agreable circumstances that have attended his excursion to Plymouth
there are none that he appears to mention with more pleasure, than the civilities he
has met with from Mrs Lloyd. Stranger
as I am to you, it would be almost an impertinence
in me to offer my acknowledgments for those civilities.
but neither this consideration nor any other can ever prevent
my entertaining the most grateful sense of them all. During his stay on board the fleet
He bids me direct to your house any letters or parcels I may wish to have convey'd
to him
I am sorry to add so much to the trouble you have already had on
his account: by directing letters and parcels for him to your house
but he has given me no other means of corresponding
with him. I sent Tuesday the 22d 18 a small parcel
to him by one of the Plymouth Coaches that put up in Friday
Street. I sent also at the same time by the post
a letter giving him advice of it. In a letter dated the
22d he takes notice that no parcel is come to him as he
expected. The direction he gave me to his lodgings was so
hastily written that I could not make out with any certainty
the name of the Mistress of the House. I wrote
it at a venture M "Wuderige or Studeridge" — perhaps
it may be neither: and from this circumstance I
fear that neither the letter nor the parcel may have reached
their destination. I think that by the course of the post or
and of the coach one or other at least should have reached
him. May I St You know, I imagine, where he lodges
St Aubyn's Street, I suppose, is not a great way from
the Dock Yard — May I venture, Sir, to trespass so much farther
upon your politeness, as to beg the favour of you
to inform me whether they have or no?
I have a letter from him on board the Bienfaisant, dated the
23. The introduction you have favoured him with to Capt: Macbride
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Jeremy Bentham |
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