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Petersburg Novr 14h PS 1783

I have at last got my box containing the different articles of dress which you
sent me, out of the Customhouse. The suit of cloaths after all was not seizable
being embroidered with silk only not with gold as the people took it into their
head it was although I had never told them so. Every article however
paid a duty of which the whole amounted to 26 rubles.

The magical Snuffbox you was broke before it came to my hands.
The buckles are very handsome i.e. they are much admitted.

I had got a packet for you ready to go by the last ships, but an English
Courier arriving about that time, I thought it would be much safer and
probably more expeditious to send it by him. The departure of This Courier however is not
yet fixed. You shall by him have the books you mention unless it be the
Empress's Carte moral which I have not yet been able to get the
french translation of. You shall then also if not before have all the
information you require about .

Capper has not yet been able to fix a place for the erecting his
machines. The model of my Pile-driving Engine is finished and
much approved of. I have just ordered a neater model to be made
which I hope may be done this week. I mean it shall be presented
to the Empress but whether immediately or after it is executed in practice
I have not resolved on. I hope in a month's time to see piles
driving with it. This said Engine of mine I flatter myself is as
perfect an invention as the eye of man ever beheld. The manner

Identifier: | JB/539/462/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-11-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	462	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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