JB/540/120/001

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Edinr. Nov. 1784

Dear Bentham:

I hope you have received the Encyclopedia by this time,.
I had Since my last received letters from Riga
that the Encycloped. and with chequer's dictionary arrived
there early in October and were imediately
forwarded to your brother to Petersburg —
as there are many vessels coming to Leith
from Petersburg to Leith early in Spring,
I offer you to take the Encyclopedia back
for the Same Price I charged you for viz: 10£10s
and to pay the expences of the retour, if your
brother will Send it back to me in good condition
under the direction D<hi rend="superscript">r. Swediau'r Edinburgh
Leith to the care of M<hi rend="superscript">r. gavin Kempt merch<hi rend="superscript">t
It is a book which I should not like to
possess myself and thereby Save you at the Same
time double and unnecessary expences

Lord Dundonalds Process of making tar
and volatil alkali from Pitcoals as well, as
the Process of Cort of converting cold Short or
So called Pig-iron into malleable good iron are
both the most ingenious and at the same time the

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