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as soon after my Receipt of Sam's Packet as possible, I will take
care to transmit it to P. Carew together with your Letter to him,
& think with you, it will be better for me not to appear in
it, since I am not unaware that both of us interfering
with the same Person may lessen the weight of Each of us —
Since my last I have been in Company with a Lady a
few miles from home, that was several years with the Consul
of Petersburg, was acquainted with every body belonging to it
and particularly the Countess, as you call her. This Lady
told me, She was handsome, genteel, in her person, & very
amicable & agreeable in her behaviour & deportment & esteem'd by everybody,
& in a manner adored by her own family,
that she is one that coud not but please here in
England; that when ever she went out it was in a
carriage with a set of six horses to attend her —
and she gave me much the same account of her
family, as Sam's to me — speaking of the Father she
said he was lookd upon to be rather a weak man, &
was made a dupe of by some designing persons, who,
to answer some views of their own put him upon
behaving in a manner slighting or offensive to the Grand
Duke & Dutchess, on wch account, it was that he was ordered
out of the way, to Moscow, but that his wife the
Countess's mother was not thought the worse of on
his account — you will probably want to know by this
time, who this same Lady is, that cod give me so partial
an account — It is a Mrs Winder, who is daughter of Lady
Knowles by Admiral Sir Chas Knowles, who you know,
was some time at Petersberg. This daughter is married
to a young gentleman an officer of the Guards, but he & she live
chiefly with Lady Knowles her Mother, at Thorpe.
Mrs Winder is a very pretty, agreable young Lady, plays
admirably well on the Harpsichord, & when she Miss Knowles
at Petersburg she was, it seems, a great favourite of the
Empress, in so much so, as to be a kind of maid of
honour, & I once saw her dressed in Town, when she
appeared to have some Jewels, in some form, on one
side wch if I understood aright were a present from the
Empress, expressive of some order or other, but as to that
circumstance, perhaps, I may be mistaken, however she
appeared to be perfectly well acquainted with the
Names , Persons & Characters of every body at the
Court of Petersburg — you may imagine I cod not but
be pleas'd that a young Lady of such a description &
character, as the Countess, had avow'd such a
for Sam, tho' nothing may come of it — as it nevertheless

1783 ) Q.S.P. Datchet
10 ) to
Sept. ) J.B. Brompton

Sophia known by
Mrs Winder

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Date_1	1783-09-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	404	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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