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forced her to give up all hopes. She said she had burnt my
letters and required me to gi send her hers. Now as She had
forwarned me that such a demand might be made in consequence
of a moment of weakness on her part, and had begd me
never to give them up; I accordingly imagining her letter
to be written under the influence of her parents, refused
to give up her letters. She replied entreating me again to give
them up: but I refused the second time more peremptorily
than the first. I however afterwards understood that it
was of her own free will that She demanded my her letters and
that she was enraged against me for not delivering them up.
I forgot to tell you that in refusing to give up her letters to
the man whom She sent for them I promised to give them
into her own hands whenever she would permit me. That however
her friends would not consent to. Now though I know She really
wishes to have them, and I have no wish to keep them, nor
would take any advantage of the impropriety of her burning
mine at a time She was asking for her's; Yet I have not
chosen to give them into any other hands than her own as
yet; partly because I said I would not, and do not like to
retract without some particular reason, and partly because
I have reason to believe that while She as well as her parents
are enraged against me, anything I do will be attributed
to any other than the real motive. What is unlucky in this
affair is the situation in which my friend Pleschijoff stands
at present. The girl to justify herself as far as possible for
her attachment to me, has told her Parents the active part
which Ples: took in the business, and among other things of

Identifier: | JB/540/007/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1784-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence/copy	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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