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number my father as you know was one. Before I went a copy was
taken of I believe of the greatest part if not the whole except 3 or 4 pages of the English, and
the 11 or 12 pages of which in the French intimately blended with the
English in the same paper. A very few days before my departure
an opportunity happened or a chance at least offer'd for the first time of getting the French copied
by a Frenchman who writes an extraordinary fair hand and who
was then employed in writing constantly in the presence of a person on whom I
thought I could depend in very respect. I deliver'd it accordingly into
the hands of that person accompanied with a request that as soon
as the copy was compleated he would convey both to my father
which was just lay in a cover which with a proper direction which
I left with him for that purpose. In the mean time I had got
a fair copy which person of trust who I think writes a fair hand to begin a
copy from my fathers rough one corrected as far as it was by me & intended it for your use. I forget now how it happened
that that copy which circumstances did not permitt me to get compleated
happened not to did not at first accompany the original and my fathers
rough copy when disposed of consigned by me to the hands abovementioned.
I took care however to send it to the same persons in a cover in
which I desired it to be added to the rest of the manuscripts I had
left with them for the purpose which they knew directed to my father . The original all except
a page or scrap torn paper or two of which presently, I learn by my father
has found its way to you by his hands: but great was my surprise
when on an some time after my arrival at the place I found here
the abovementioned fragment of a copy in the cover in which I had sent it, &
accompanied with the above mentioned fragments of the original. I now embrace
the

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1786 ) J.B. Critchoff
June ) to
17/) P. Carew London
28. )

Sent by Riga
by S.B. horses to go
by Sea.

Identifier: | JB/540/285/002 "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	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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