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Petersburg. Easter Day April 15 O.S. 26 N.S. 1780, and half the Nation
drunk thro' Devotion.

I am just this instant return'd from Dinner, to see if there were any
message or Letters for me. I find one Card, and two Letters.
The Card is from the Countess & Count Ostermann the Chancellor to
Invite me to supper the Day after tomorrow, where I shall be
forced to eat a great deal at a time when I wou'd wish to
eat nothing.

The two Letters are from your honour, the first I have receiv'd
and will I doubt not furnish me a delicious feast tho' I
have but just dined. I have only opened them, and take up
the Pen, that I may give you a few of the Ideas which
arise as I go on in reading them. It is the only chance you have
for my answering them as I am at present circumstanced.
Courland — you have been very good to give me so much
matter for Letters. It is a matter I still think of at odd times
but as I have other matters at present more interesting, I
don't feel such a degree of Satisfaction from it as I otherwise
shod do. If it is a matter au pis aller, or which perhaps may
yield something in conjunction with other matters
I am exceedingly happy to think my Letters have given
so much pleasure to my Father, Uncle, Cousin &c If I had
more of the faculty of writing upon such Subjects, and had not
so much of that timidity which has made me conceal a
great deal, I flatter myself their pleasure would have been
greater. At the same time that I may be too timid with respect
to what I trust to the Post I wou'd wish you were much
more so, depend upon it Letters are opened, and depend
upon it also that any thing about Cour— may hurt me,
The going to Moscow which you seem not at all satisfied

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Date_1	1780-04-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings	"Petersburg. Easter Day April 15 O.S 26 N.S. 1780, and half the Nation drunk thro' Devotion"
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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