JB/540/285/001

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Dear Sir

By a letter I received a short time ago from my
Father, I find you have a charge against me of breach of promise
for not returning accompanying the return by a fair copy of the manuscript you were the use of
kind enough to lend me by which my importunities protected from your kindness If you since the return of the original
you happen to have cast an eye over it, I fear you have ere this
found out a still heavier charge I mean the (omitting to return) disappearance
of a part of the original itself. Whether what I have to
allege in exculpation will be deemed a valid one, I cannot must be left to you
pretend to say yourself, but at any rate it is highly incumbent upon me to confess and
account for the omission, if I can not justify it . & the of decyphering it, owing to The smallness of the
hand the irregular arrangement of the pages. Several circumstances
concurred in rendering me unwilling to put it put in the ordinary way
to an hackney writer, as I might have done to by a paper of less value.
The difficulty of decyphering it, owing to the smallness of the hand and
the irregular casual arrangement of the pages, and the novelty of many of the
terms contained in it: the danger of its being lost or injured by carelessness,
or pirated by knavery or if consigned to the hands of
besides that a considerable part of it being in French was an additional not to overcome
an unknown quill-drawer : These considerations concurring with your kind
indulgence were the reason of my detaining it from day to day in
hopes of fresh opportunities of perfecting the copy which had been begun
and carried on at many opportunities by different hands on whom I could depend, of which
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Identifier: | JB/540/285/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1786-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	285	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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