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The Velvet alone will 17 £ english.
Saturday Dec: 18th Answer to IB's Letter
The Prussian Minister certainly would be the best means of
introducing your Code to the King but in case you had no
better, it might be done by the means of my friend the
Margrave of Schidt first cousin to the King from whom I
have received so much honour and expression of friendship, and
especially as he desired me to write to him as soon as I
was arrived at Petersburg. I have not yet found time to
give you an account of my reception & detention at his
Court: but I will sometime or other.
Continue to direct your letters here although I shall not
stay more than a fortnight if I dont succede. that time
I shall stay at any rate. Letters must pass through here
the expenc wont be severe and nor any great delay.
Mears's book I wrote agree about.
With respect to Symp it is all gone. lost. never used.
I shall begin another letter for you this afternoon.
I have set up since I have been here generally till 1
or 2 in the morning and never in bed after 7. I was
obliged to do this to write thus much to you as you
know I take a good deal of time to deliberate upon
thing I do. and you may imagine I have
gh at present to deliberate about.
I hope you dont expect I should even have read all
this over after having written it much less that
I should have given any time to correct the first
expressions that came into my head.
is certainly the best of men you for you or
for me or indeed a for any body, were it not
for his tache how should know how I think
not to run a danger ing by that part of his
Character. He had temptations to
Many thousand thanks to Lind for his news and you
also for yours Its I shewd Lind's to the duke and
read yours. He was as were the rest to whom I shewd it,
charmed with Lind's style of writing. but dont fail
to tell him of one fault by which alone they
found it was not a french man who wrote it.
Poste he makes of the feminine gender. true
it is so when it signifies the post which
carries letters but when a place then
it is Masculine Adieu. I am just
come from Court and have a Levee at my
lodgings to see Storm Delineator.
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Oneof the young Medems has just called on me. The
embraces of the Old Man and of Old Kinerlinc I am very well reconciled to
but I cannot stomach yet such kissing from the young
I know you will scold me and that I can not
conform myself to with less difficulty to this as
well as all other customs. I will as soon as I
can: why not kiss a man as well as a Cat
Dog, horse, or in general a substance
of the heat of the human body.
Sunday
I had intended not to have gone to Court today
at least not till after dinner that I might have
had the more time to write to you for the Post goes out
at 2 o Clock. but Klopman wont let me stay
away, and I shall the news to tell them from your
2 other letters which I have just now received.
I have just been told second hand from one of the
Musicians that the last concert was given ordered on my
account as it was not on the usual day, but I
dont believe a word of it for the D would have
told me so if it had.
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Samuel Bentham |
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