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are cut with that expedition which renders them so cheap. I dispatch this letter
with a sledge and pair of horses which I send to Riga on purpose to fetch a
cask of tools which came in the Autumn from England. I write by the same
opportunity to Capper who is in England and whom you have most likely seen
before you receive this letter. Potatoes and Jerusalem Artichokes I hope
you or somebody will send or bring me in the Spring, enough to eat and to sow.

When you have anything to say which requires expedition it may be worth
while to send a duplicate letter to Riga under cover to Mr John Kay whom
I have beg'd to forward to me by post here without passing through
Petersburgh: by this means I may get the letter a week sooner or
more and I believe it will come quite as safe. The only reason for
not trusting solely to that channel in a matter of importance is that if
I should be at any other part of the country the letter would easier
me by the way of Petersburgh.

There is a sort of Varnish which the Coachmakers or rather Painters
mix up with their red and black paint instead of oil. It gives a fine
gloss and soon dries. I wish you could procure me 5 or 6 gallons
of it to send by the first ships with some of the Vermillion and whatever
black paint it is they use with it. a little about the method of using
it too for I am affraid I have forgotten it is so long since I was a
Coachmaker. Some brushes also as I remember they were finer than
the ordinary ones.

I expect Notman's return to be very interesting
to me and therefore certainly am anxious for it. I shall certainly
have letters from all of you. Adieu. I am well and in
pretty good spirits because I have a great deal to do: but I am
sometimes terribly distrait.

Identifier: | JB/540/136/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1785-01-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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