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Wedn. Novr 4 1778

Swede says if I publish any thing of my Punishments or Code
while he is in the way (I mean in England or hereabouts) he will
himself translate it into German. If he is not in the way he wishes me
to send the sheets as they are printed off to a friend of his at
Vienna, a Bookseller, a man who he says, if he thought a book
would be of use to mankind would publish it though he were sure of
the greatest part of the impression lying on his shelves till doomsday -
Did you ever hear of such a Bookseller in your life before?

Swede and I & Wilson (there's for you!) dined to day at
Q.S.P. — I doubt poor Swede was thought simple — he was such
an idiot as to go there with coloured stockings and in other respects
not very extraordinarily dressed. Q.S.P. looked a little sulky when
I introduced him, and continued so all the time except at intervals
when he seemed to put a force upon himself: whether it was that
he did not like Swede or that something else had put him out
of humour I know not. Mrs Q.S.P. had sent an in a formal
invitation to Wilson by his new servant whom I sent to Q.S.P.
on an errand of my own before I knew of Wilson's arrival:
and he thought himself very happy in taking this opportunity when
he knew was sure of one man (Swede I mean) whose company he liked. There was
nobody else except a miserable female toad-eater of Madam's. Davies
talked to me of taking the same opportunity, but he did not
come.

On my return this evening at 9 I found your letter of the
1st. My subsequent letter or the parcel it announced (which ever reached
Plymouth first) will I hope have come time enough to detain
caught you before you left Plymouth.

What I told you of the arrival of the paquet at Petersburgh
was a mistake; owing to a misconstruction I put upon
a passage in a letter of Wilson's which related to a paquet of
his own. I know nothing at all about the Petersburgh paquet.

Identifier: | JB/538/253/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1778-11-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	253	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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