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If your Couzin Mulford gives into your Plan, in terms of
recommendation of it to you, perhaps, he wod supply
you with the means, by Loan I mean — and it might
be worth your while, to make it your business, to
go over to him, & talk matters over with him — It wod be
very injudicious to undertake such a Voyage, & to go to
such a place as Petersburg upon such a Plan as you
profess to go upon without being provided with the
means, some how or other, of supporting yourself
suitably — as for myself you might depend upon
my making you the annual allowance agreable
to what I have mentioned before, at such times
as is in my power to give it you - for tho' it
may not be equally in my power at all times in
the year, I hope it will be at same times, & upon upon the whole —

My Concern is principally, that you have been put to a
Profession, & Served a Time to it, & yet are deficient in
the most material Circumstances, requisit for the
Practise of it, it is not abstract Science, & mere Speculation
that qualify's any man to carry on business of any
kind. nor can I conceive that you will be a jot the
better qualified to carry on business for yourself, on
your return from Russia, than you are now, without
the knowledge of the Practical Part, by knowing the
Prices of Materials, how to get them, & what to charge
for them, when you have either Constructed the Vessell
or repair'd or alter'd it - it is the means of giving Satisfaction
to the Employers, by doing the work well, & the profit upon
it, or the knowledge of what loss may accruwing to the Undertaker, in case he does not
succeed; that makes a compleat master workman wish you consider whether it will

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Identifier: | JB/538/328/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-05-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	328	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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