JB/539/204/002

Click Here To Edit

Shelburne, at present to my Lord, besides poor plebeian cats
who are taken no notice of, horses &c and a wild boar who
is sent off on a matrimonial expedition to the farm. The four
first I have commenced a friendship with; especially the first
of all, to whom I am body coachman extraordinary en libre
d'office. Henry (for that is his name) for such an animal
has the most thinking countenance I ever saw: being very
clean I can kiss him without disgust, & even with pleasure,
especially after having been rewarded as I have just
now, for my attention to him by a pair of the sweetest smiles
imaginable from his Mama & Aunt. As providence hath
order'd it they both play upon the Harpsichord, and at
Chess. I am flattered with the hopes of engaging with before
long either in war or harmony. Not to day, because whether
you know it or no it is Sunday. I know it, having been
paying my devotions our church, the hall; our minister
a slick young parson the curate of the parish; our saints, a
naked Mercury an Apollo in the same dress, and a Venus
of Medicis; our congregation the two ladies, Capt Blanket &
your

Identifier: | JB/539/204/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-08-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	204	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number
Box Contents