JB/539/388/001

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Brompton near Chatham Aug. 16 1783

Hon:d Sir

I have two letters to thank you for since my return
hither, the last copying that of Mr Fraser. Of this copy I sent
a copy to W. Fitzherbert, under the idea of thanking him for it
as the fruit of his good offices. To those good offices (which as I told
you he had offered me) it may naturally be supposed to have
been owing, at least in part; and at any rate, you will easily
conceive my having more than one motive for ascribing it to
that cause. This answer you will find on the other leaf. As
to my seeing A. Fitzherbert, or your seeing him, I can't see any
use it could be likely to be of adequate to the trouble it would
give to either of us, and the expence as well as loss of time
it would necessarily be productive of to me. Indeed to speak the
truth, I do not see any real use it could be of at all, even were
considerations out of the question. Nothing can be more favourably
disposed to us that there is all the reason to be assured the Fitzherberts
are already; and when no more good remains to be done,
the effect, if any, of any nearer intercourse could only be to
do harm. If there were any such use conceivable, it could only
be that from being witness to your stile of living he might
be led to entertain a higher idea of the situation of the family
than possibly he may have imbibed from what his brother W.
has

Identifier: | JB/539/388/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-08-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	388	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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