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This man has 2 daughters who are maids of honour one of them the finest figure at
court. If I tell you that she does me the honour of singing to me some Russian songs
of which the airs are most enchanting when I go there you will not wonder at my continuing
to go to that house. However besides this her brother has a collection of the natural curiosities
of the country and a tollerably good small French library: in short he has vanity
enough to possess himself of the utensils of a man of learning without sense or
application enough to profit by them. I told him I would go tomorrow to read some
articles of his Encyclopedia. Notwithstanding however this double attraction I dont go
to the house above once or twice a week if so often. Since my return here I have
had so much to do at home that I go scarcely any where except to dinner 3 or 4
times a week at Sir James's.

This aforesaid book holding man has promised
me some models of the winter as well as summer travelling vehicles of this country
upon a wish I expressed of procuring them but I must not trust to any such promise
I meant to send them with a model of a Russian Peasants house to England for
Lord Shelburne. I would at the same time send a copy of a manuscript of Dr Pallas's
Philosophical & geographical observations on this country in the travels he was sent
upon by the crown, and anything else curious which I can pick up. I hope to get these things
ready before the last ships go away. The advantage which I dare to say d it was to
me my having letters of recommendation from his Lordship notwithstanding I was
so unfortunate as to lose them make me wish very much to be able to send something
which may be in any degree agreable to him.

I have it in my power to procure the information and perhaps drawings brought
from the northern neighbourhood by a private company sent there as a particular
commission. Altogether I think I shall be pretty well stocked before I set out
to pursue my tour, and I think you will confess that I have found myself in fortunate
enough circumstances and made tollerably good connections pour bien recouplir le
but de mon voyage.

I may perhaps speak much more openly and with less
reserve in a letter which I propose to send by the Ships. I have a thousand

Identifier: | JB/539/089/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-10-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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