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I first said I should be Master Shipwright but that he was given to understand I would not
accept he then said he would make me as overleaf and more he says he should have, but
the how much more? requires some explanation.

This must not be shewed to anybody. If you shew the both 1/2 sheets to my father
it must be when he is alone & under injunctions of Secrecy from his family.

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England. They pay well for such things and I should have a few slaves of my own carpenters, already to
make shipwrights of to put to that purpose. Marberry would be the person to superintend them as I should have
no time for doing giving any more than very general directions.

Any Officer here has liberty to resign & quit the service whenever he pleases. This was a most
noble priviledge established by the present Empress.

As I may be able to tell you in my letter before you set off whether I engage in anything here immediately
or not, if you should be going to Brampton or on any other account
have an opportunity of seeing Birkitt, ask him if he would come with
you here to remain with me in the character of Secretary, though his chief
business would be to assist in experiments &c and to turn to account his
several inventions which he has already as well as the many more he
would have here. People here a very fond of ingenious inventions but
have but a very few of them. The kind of times I should think would be
a certain Salary and a assistance in the execution of his inventions and
a share in the profit from them.

If my father liked the second part of the plan, the employing
some of the money wi which he was himself in this way he would as on
your account he would certainly like to employ more as that way
and to receive the whole benefit from it himself this I might also
be done as for perhaps as as much more: but more than that dont think
of at any rate as apt for I am not certain whether so much greater a Sum could be
managed with the same conveniency.

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1780 S.B. Surveyor
Ap. ) to
12 ) J.B. Linc. Inn
Last inst.

Identifier: | JB/539/033/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	033	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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