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If I choose to accept of a the place of Director Surveyor General of all the Shipbuilding
and Mechanical works relating to the Marine with a Salary of a thousand roubles
(equal to scarcely two hundred pounds) a year with occasional douceurs
and presents upon
the finishing of pieces of work, the man at the head of those matters says he should be very
glad to give it me. But as we have not seen one another yet to m talk the matter
over more particularly. I am Their thousand roubles does not come up to my
price and besides I must ha be satisfied of the power and assistance I may have
in making experiments which would be the principal consideration.
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If I had not some reasons to imagine that the concluding this matter would be better
put off for some months or even a year I certainly should have said nothing
to you about coming till was settled and I was by that means furnished with more
more money for the expences but as it is I do wish very much more even on your
account than on my own that you are here.
If you were to come in th early in this Summer in June for example, you should stay here
till the middle of winter and then we would contrive with very little expence
to go through Moscow & c to the Southern parts the Ukraine &c. The accounts given
by people of this Ukraine are almost enchanting it is the only part of the world our old friend
Foster wishes to see, but he says he is too old now to put these schemes in practise which
he should have if he went there.
What a treasure Burkitt or Masberry would be to me here. I fear the former would not come
however well I should be able to pay him and yet he would have an amazing extent to
exercise his genius upon and he would be very happy if he could leave that Brampton.
The latter I make no doubt would come and I have to say it wont be long before I
shall send for him that is if matters go on here. I should then indeed have the Commission
and endeavour to engage Peake & Mears, the 2 latter in the public account but the former in private.
For you are to know if I engage in public service I shall also do private business also by which I hope
to get so small sums. They have nobody to build their pleasure boats even. They send for them sometimes from
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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