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vacant in the same house Pleschijeff: but no lodgings
are let ready furnished here; but at an amazing high rate. I have therefore
been obliged to be at the expence of furnishing them.

A carriage here
is as necessary as a coat. The one I had is so bad that it would be
flinging money away to repair it. It broke for some time past almost
every time I used it, so as for me to be obliged to hire one at the
rate of 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 roubles pr day. A new carriage then is another
unavoidable expence, & these two expences especially as there are
deductions for the first year for fees of office it is impossible my salary
should bear.

Roubles
The money I have had of Mr Shairp with his charges & interest —— 2,470

Money which Mr Hynam (with whom I have lodged) has paid for me } — 309
in the executing different commissions for these 2 years past }

Money Pleschijeff lent me and which though he has never given } — 150
me to understand that he expects again I hope, Sir, you will approve my }
repaying }

To two soldiers I have had with me during my journey and } — 70
to this time as servants — — }

Furniture for my lodgings — — 320

Carriage — — 350
3,669

For this sum of three thousand six hundred & sixty nine roubles I have then dared to
give to Mr Shairp an assignment on you, Sir. I am alarmed at my having taken this
step. It has cost me more than you will conceive to do it, but there was no way of avoiding it.
I trust that in future, you will never have reason to disaprove of the conduct or doubt of the
sincere affection of your dutiful son Sam.l Bentham.

Identifier: | JB/539/419/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-09-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	419	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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