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To J.B.
Just as I was sealing up the whole sheet to send to Petersbourg to be forwarded
from thence to you came a man sent to me by the Governor of Catherineberg with
a large packet of letters ad containing yours of the 30th of Jan.y another of 26th Feb.y
and my father's of 27th of Feb.y Yours of the for contain the much wished for
"Experimenting". Anderson's agricultural paper "Div." Destruc." and scraps of Reviews.
Your reproaches to me for writing so seldom affect me at present to such a
degree that they can not fail of producing a greater degree of punctuality in that respect.
can you believe that every day & often in the day I regret this negligence of
mine and yet that I cannot sit down to write and draw my attention
from other things to that but now & then just as the post is going out?
Thus it is that I am always in a hurry and what that my chief
letters are filled as it were with excuses for not writing.
I have relied on Pleschijeffs sending you copies of whatever I write
to Petersbourg as it will most of it come into his hands.
Was there a Bell man to ring every night I should certainly
better correspondent. How unlucky that even at this moment
when a man is waiting to set off for Catherineberg the instant I give him this and
that I could yet keep him an hour to give you another sheet, that
that at this moment there is a couple waiting at the Church
to be married and the priests even I see at the Church door looking
out for me. The fact is I had desired the principal priest to let
me know when there was to be a marriage that I might see
that ceremony performed according to the true uncorrupted Russian
custom. He sent me word this morning and now lets me know that
they wait only for me. Surely this excuse is admissible.
May I never hear a single word from you again if I sleep
before I have filled one sheet of paper for you before I
Some good public news from England I have just learnt by
a letter from Mr Carew at Petersbourg of whom you have written
to me and I dare to say several times mention spoke of to you.
Poor Lehman little hope of the Thunderer!
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Samuel Bentham |
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