JB/538/357/001

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Linc. Inn Wednesday morning Aug. 25. 1779

1

I am now writing to you for the last time on thick
paper. I shall send you I believe some exquisite thin paper
called Bank Paper; doubting whether the like may be to be
got in Holland. You may make use of it for all your
correspondents — They will not like your letters the worse for costing
them little. Divide each page into two columns: by this means you will
lose less room by breaks.

2

I am not at all melancholy — I have perfectly
got the better of the shock at parting, and think of nothing
but the flattering prospects that are before us.

3

You a Mechanic, and bid me get a box on purpose
made for the Delineator stand? I sent for the Carpenter in
blind obedience to your orders: but when he came it seemed
to me that upon further taking to pieces it might very likely
be puttable into the box with the smooth inside. The honest
obliging fellow came into the proposal very readily & put it
into execution. He has marked the claws 1, 2, 3 in ordand put
correspond marks to the parts of the foot into which they are respectively
to be inserted. The box was not full by a good deal:
so I put 4 Priestly into it and Pestant and Hume. Also
Contract & Principal Dimensions: item the flannel sailing
jacket merely to fill up chinks. There were 6 boxes of them
in all. I despatched them by two men and a wooden horse
part last night & part this morning: Th With a letter for
Sambouski who said it was very well & renew'd his promises
of taking care of them. They are marked S. B. Paper No 1, 2, &c
on the wood in thumping large capitals.]

4

Th It would have been
better by the bye if I had number'd them 1/6 2/6 &c meaning
No 1 out of 6. No 2 out of 6 &c: then by seeing any one a man would know

Identifier: | JB/538/357/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	357	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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