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Brompton near Chatham Oct. 5. 1782

Hon:d Sir

I wrote to you the day before yesterday by
a frank of Mr Gascoyne's. I now enclosed Sam's promised
letter: you have every scrap of paper that belongs either to
that or the former one. You, who have the convenience of books
and maps, I wish you would be kind enough to tell me
whether you can meet with any thing about Chremencheck
and Barnaoul, & what longitude & latitude they are respectively in:
Irkutsk, the place the letter is dated from, we both know.
I remember writing it with you not only upon Voltaire's
map, but upon the globe. If you have a mind to astonish
the politicians at Bakers (is it not?) with the extent of
your political intelligence, you may tell them as a great
secret, that Franklin has had a fit of the apoplexy from
a
See the other leaf

Identifier: | JB/539/303/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1782-10-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	303	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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