JB/539/433/002

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may need know nothing of the family connection of Mr John Clark,
unless to account for the likeness such as there is between us, you might
be a distant relation. You might be a James Bentham why not?
and then you might go to one or two of the English houses and as
many of the Russian ones where I am most intimate, particularly
one a few doors from me where Pleschijeff spends every evening
and where there is a little harpsichord, fiddle, & a harp playing
every day. And this would require no expence worth speaking of,
you might wear the same coat always while it held together and
yet be as much at your ease as if your cloaths were ever so costly.
If however it would be losing too much time to go out to dinner
very good eatables might be dressed at home at a very triffling expence.
Were you to determine on coming now, and could bear the disagreeableness
of the voyage the season is not too far advanced for you to come
by sea as far as Dantzic or even Merinel. From the latter place
you would find carriers who would bring you to Riga, from thence others
who would bring you here; so that the whole of this land carriage would
not amount to more than 5 or 6 pounds anyd yet you would have a sledge
to yourself in which you might put a large cloak bag a small flat
trunk and other smaller packages. Supposing Anderson, Burkit
or the clever weaver would come with you at so short a notice the
disagreeableness of the journey would be lessened and the expences not
doubled, at so short a notice however there is scarcely a possibility of
the two latter being ready; possibly Anderson may agree to it.
Were you to come in this economical way I could bear the whole of
your expences in coming out, living here till the middle of next
summer, & returning by sea. Your coming out I suppose not
to cost more than 30£. I have not as yet brought me the new
carriage for which I have taken up money of Shairpe or may for and

Identifier: | JB/539/433/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-10-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	433	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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