JB/540/086/001

Click Here To Edit

When I sent you the Bibliotheque
Economique along with the other books
you may imagine I did not mean
to guarantee the truth of the articles
contained in them or even the value
of them in any respect: I thought no more indeed
to the writers themselves, as they have the precaution
in their Preface to observe. I thought
it might prove acceptable to you
as serving to give an idea of what
has been done or said to have been
done of late in that way in France
and other nations on the Continent.
As such I think it can hardly fail
to have its value more or less according
to the accidental fertility of
the year. I mean therefore to take
it in regularly.

I have just got transcribed for
you an article from the Dijon
Memoirs containing a description of a
portable it may be called a pocket chemical apparatus contrived
by M. de Morceau, whom
Thirvan in his new Mineralogy stiles
"one of the first chymists of the age"
(Pref. p. iii) This frank will hardly
hold it: but if there be room I shall
send it by the next. I wrote about a
fortnight

fortnight ago to a person who is to be at
Dijon to bespeak such an apparatus:
but whether I shall ever get it or not
God knows.

My eyes grow worse and worse: this
Executorship has almost done their business:
for these two months past my work
has been entirely at a stand: not a single
stick done to it. I will tell you an
idea which the consideration of my eyes
put into my hand written these two hours
while I was at dinner (July 11th) What to
do with myself in the event of my being
obliged to give up reading as I have done
for these two or 3 days, I do not know:
I have no relish for any thing that is commonly
called pleasure. The conversation
of my old friends that you know of, and
of others that you don't know of, all
conversation in short which does not
bear a reference to my own or my
Brother's pursuits, is become insipid
to me. My own ideas are become no
less so: for the task of invention has
for some time been accomplished, and
all that remains is to put in order ideas
ready formed: to put them in order according
to my notions of order, I must
have them all before me at once; now
that

Identifier: | JB/540/086/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1784-07-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence/copy	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number
Box Contents