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Linc. Inn. Wednesday night. Sept: 2. 1779

Hond. Sir,

This is a letter I had much rather have delay'd
and would have delay'd still longer, if I had not thought
that the hearing from us at all would be productive
of more anxiety to you than the hearing what I have to
tell you. The truth of the matter is that yesterday sennight
at 1/4 after one I left Sam under sail on board a Dutch
Eel-boat bound for Helvoetsluys: and so heavy is the ship
and so adverse have been the winds, that I much question
whether he is got there yet. Elmsly with whom I have been
talking just now says that a person whom he knows, embarked
on board of such a vessel upwards of a fortnight ago,
which has been so dilatory that the persons friends have had
time to write over here to enquire what is become of him.
However within this day or two we have had a tolerable share
of south & south-west winds; so that I should hope that
by this time we may have been landed. I have heard from
him twice already, the first time on Friday by a letter
dated Wednesday morning. He was then got no farther than
Gravesend

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Date_1	1779-09-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	369	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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