JB/538/358/002

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Friday morning

Yesterday I received your letter — there's a dear good
boy for writing. Yesterday also came one from Q.S.P. to both of us.
Very kind, but = 0 as usual.

I received a day or two ago a letter from Davies in
which he says he shall not go to sea; and I expect him every day
to pick me up and carry me to Brompton.

I have transacted the business with Otley, which
hung upon me much. He is to take back all but 16 of the inla
'steel buttons, and to allow ½ a guinea for the plain cut ones. This half guinea
alas! goes for the D. of C. As he is so dear, there is no such
thing as having two of him; but the one I have got you shall
have, attendu that to me it could give pleasure only, and to you
it might afford pleasure & profit too. You might produce it before
him at taking leave or sooner, asking leave to examine it with the
original: who knows but it might give him occasion to make you
a present of his picture in another form? What put this into my
head was, the parable of the nest-eggs in Hudibras.

You left behind you your liquefiable amalgam: also
a gimcrack for weighing. The former I shall send by Strachan: together
with the best set of inlaid buttons; which (as also certain papers & the D. of C.) I forgot to put up in the
Hamburgh box. In the Hamburgh box you will also find a pamphlet
on the marine which I bought gave 9d for at a Bookseller's in Oxford Road.
I can not get any good lights yet about a Surveying Book. I don't think
therefore that I shall send one. You will hardly want one unless you
have M. to bring it.

I have enquired at Cadel's — Of Mungo Murray's there is
nothing else but what you have.

I have settled the matter with Ravenscroft about Richard
and got William in his stead. Hairdressing is now a very comfortable operation

In short I am altogether very comfortable, Mr Sir: howsoever
your vanity may dispose you to think otherwise: and not the less so from having
observed the Wind to change amain. I hope it has for some time been very favourable
to you. You will make me a connoisseur on winds.

Identifier: | JB/538/358/002 "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	358	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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