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Petersburg May 30th 1783.

It is not five weeks since I dispatched my last and no doubt
most interesting letter to you. The same reason which had
made me delay writing to you for long till that time, here
prevented my being able to give any further account of myself
till now. A short time, Sir, after that the last news I gave
you, my love affair came to a kind of crisis. The whole
town seemed to talk of nothing else for a fortnight and I
had at least the satisfaction to hear from all quarters that
my conduct throughout had met with universal approbation.
The girl's friends themselves particularly the one I write to
on the occasion have shewn that they were no cause of
complaint against us. Upon my intimating to Sir J.H.
my uneasiness at having written to you, Sir, on the subject
when everything was at the highest degree of uncertainty,
he was so kind as to offer to write to you himself
about it; but thought it better to wait a post
or two in expectation of some better grounds to judge
in of the event. From time to time it has been put
off till about a week ago when he sent you a letter
which I presume, Sir, you must now have received.
I know not what he wrote, but as I am satisfied he

Identifier: | JB/539/343/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-05-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	343	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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