JB/540/074/001

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J.B.'s Money

As to your Money the produce of Malthouse,
I should be sorry you should lay it
out in Annuity, neith but I would not
take charge of it either: but I should
wish and advice is that you should bring
it here with you when you come to see
me. I think you would find much
better means of employing it here than
at home; but you must see that
yourself first. Ducats of Holand
seem to be the best of all money to
bring into this country particularly
this part of it. These will here often
fetch 3 rubles a piece, and a guinea
would not procure you in credit
through a Banker more than 6
rubles, you would gain therefore
what you get more than 2 ducats
in exchange for a guinea.

If we take a trip to the Crimea together
you may like and find it advantageous
to buy some land there. The use of
buying is the having the choice of
such as is at present in the hands of
some of the Tartars who may wish to
sell it. The Prince has promised to give
me some as he would you likewise; but
when we cant pick & choose.

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As to the young man whom you seemed to
think might be usefull to you. He is
too schoolboyish & insignificant for
me to count his friendship, and at the
same time too insensible & inconstant
to give be capable of being of any use.
He is a good natured boy who has
nothing but Novels & plays in his head.
I dont like at all that expression
"If the French be found tollerable"
Why not tollerable or rather good
if corrected by a Frenchman who
is master of his language and surely
you will find one for that purpose.

I hope you have almost done and
that for it would be universally vexatious
if you were prevented from coming
to see me at the end of the Summer.
I cant help wishing there were no
offer made to any Court. The having
the work presented is sufficient to induce
those to apply who are disposed to attend
to the subject. At any rate do pray
let me see the letters of offers before
you send them.

Ld S & Carew could assist you in
the send desiring the English ministers
at the different Courts to present the copies
Titcherfoot would require no such assistance
But I think it might be better that I
should beg the Prince to present it. Still better if
both were to present each a copy.

Identifier: | JB/540/074/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1784-06-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
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