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1781-10-18

Since my arrival at my "Villa", a subject
on which the public prints have been scandalously silent)
I have been honoured with two instances testimonies of your Lordship's
kind attention. In the first I am told that "All Bowood
"desire to be remember'd by me": as if any part of Bowood
could ever cease to be remember'd by me, while gratitude,
or any quality I could ever value myself on, remained
with in me. In the latter I am informed, that my "Bowood
"friends are impatient to know how my hand does." Those
reproaches, as they might seem if literally taken, for not writing may, I
think upon the fairest and least flattering interpretation, be
construed into a permission to write. In this light I avail myself
of them: for without such some especial warrant, my Lord, I should
hardly have ventured to have given you any trouble with
my pen, in addition to the unconscionable bond which particular




Identifier: | JB/539/255/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.

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1781-10-18

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Jeremy Bentham

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