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Thursday morn.
I have just had a visit from an old fellow collegiate of mine whom I don't know whether
you ever remember my hearing me speak of. His name is Cranmer: a parson, a very honest
good sort of man but one who never had nor ever will have a single idea in his head. He
called to renew the long-ago expired acquaintance (peace be to its !) to ask me go
& spend some time with him at his living which I fancy is not a great way from Q.S.P.'s
farm at Harlow &c &c. Well what is all this to you? Truly, nothing at all; except that
he has got a wife whose name was Yalden & she came originally from Salisbury, & last from Winchester
or vice versa and she has a sister, and that sister is married to a harum-scarum
inginious sort of an artist a painter, whose name is Brompton, whom Offenberg I believe used to
go and see in the Kings Bench — where he was in jail, and who has been taken out of jail by you
people, who have sent for him over to paint, and he is patronized I understand by Sr J. I. so I suppose
you see him now and then: & so I thought I would tell you so much of his history.
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You will be expecting the Ship-building paper I promised to send you by my last: but it is
impounded, & I can not get it till my next.
Friday Decr 1. 1780
This day ( for the first time I believe) is advertised, and I have this instant bought, An
"account of the Prisons & Hospitals in Russia, Sweden & Denmark with occasional remarks
"on the different modes of punishments in those countries. By William Cox, A.M. Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge, and Chaplin to his Grace the D. of Marlborough" pp58. large 8vo small print
He lately published an account of the Phys. Discoveries between Asia & America, the conquest of Liberia
& the Commerce between Russia & China 4to: and before that an 8vo account of Switzerland.
His subjects & materials are highly interesting: but he is but a so so writer. He pretends to have
had conversations or correspondences with the E. himself on the subject. Learn what Sr J. says of him
& lett me what you hear of him.
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Samuel Bentham Esq:r
at Mr Shairpe's
British Consul
Petersburg
Single Sheet
Decr 1st 1780
J.B. to S.B.
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