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Feb. 24. 1779.
I committed a Benthamism on your letter to Mrs D:
but it turned out more fortunately than it deserved. I forgot to
put it into the post till this afternoon; and this evening she is
come to Town. I have been using all my rhetoric with the
Postmaster I mean the Shoemaker who lives opposite me: & it has
been crowned with success. I should have told you for what
I mean, to get back your letter. This evening afternoon came a formal
note from D. by his servant to invite me to eat an oyster
with him at ½ after 8 in the evening: & thus it was I learnt
that she was come to Town. It is almost that already: I
will go but cannot stay: if I do I shall not have
time to finish this. I am almost batter'd to death with
writing for you whence the Almighty of his infinite mercy
d. The plague of it is I was forced to take a copy: partly
because I cou'd not be satisfied without correcting (not
being in a writing humour for want of exercise &c &c) partly
because I thought it right that you &c should see
it — It goes to night or to morrow morning. I did not get
the materials till yesterday or Monday was it? when D. brought them to me.
When he called the Hairdresser was with me all the time.
Yet he mentioned his h your having complaints against him
& his having complaints against you, & how sorry he was there
should be any misunderstanding considering that he had a great regard
for you and besides was under great obligation to you as well as
to me & Mr W. — It was nearly no Close wards.
His note to me to night was directed to W. Therefore I supposed
there was a counter-note for W. directed to me: & so it
proved. W. does not go.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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