JB/539/150/001

Click Here To Edit

S.B. to J.B. Petersbourg 17 Febry 1781

At last then my journey is absolutely determined on and will most probably be along
and I have everything ready and set off early tomorrow morning where to? What
for? When I shall be back? are questions which you will expect me to give a good
Account of, but which I could wish to put off the answering of. My dislike to
setting about giving you those answers does not I do most sincerely assure you proceed
from any suspicion that you would not be satisfied with them; but from the
impossibility of my letting you know all my reasons. Will you be satisfied in knowing
that I am pursing the Plan which cannot fail of mending either here or at Home. It
is my own fault if my connections in both are not firmly established By my return.
My very good friend Sir James has given himself a good deal of trouble to serve me,
Mr Carey also in whose power it may probably be to do me very essential Service,
is disposed to spare no pains in exerting himself for me. Whether I shall begin here
or at Home is not as yet certain. I have just now written a Letter to Ld Sandwich,
which Sir James incloses in One from himself about me by the first Courier which he
dispatches. My Letter is about my Copper Sheathing Plan.

I hope my Father will forgive my having taken up so much Money just
now, I have not spent 20 pounds since my return from my last Journey, except for
things for my present Journey, and which I hope will well pay Me. besides I shall
certainly not want any more for a year. After visiting some Saw Mills and some
Copper Mines which are almost in the straight Road, I shall, I suppose in less than a
fortnight be at Archangel. From there you will hear from me and then I may
be able to give some better Account of the Route I take.

I promise to be a much better Correspondent than I have been yet, and shall
be much more particular in my Journal, as I may probably make some use of the
general Observations I make.

Our Correspondence will henceforth seldom cost either of us any thing,
I have since I have been now paid a monstrous deal of Money for Postage. You
will always direct your Letters or Packets to Sir James. I have received a few days
ago your Packet of "Vin: Experimenting" which I wanted most, you promised me in a
Month I think; however if you sent it me in 3 or 4 it will be time enough.

When your Code is finished, send 3 or 4 Copies in English and half a
Dozen in German directed to Sir James. One he will take care the Empress shall
have

Identifier: | JB/539/150/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-02-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	150	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number
Box Contents