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if they can not get intelligence of me any otherwise than immediately from myself I must be obliged to
write separate letters to them all, and consequently have so much the less time and the less matter to write to you
I think you got from Mr Mulford a letter. I sent him in continuation of the sort of sea journal sent
to you; containing among other things the account of my stay at the gulph of Smyrna:
that will I hope go to the Alderman with the rest.
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To Mr Rich. King
Sir I enclose herewith some papers in the amount of 44 pages together with sheets of drawings,
which I will beg the favour of you to deliver to Mr Wilson, or if he should not be in London
to Mr Trail: or if neither of those gentleman should be in town or soon expected, than to Messrs Payne
with the letter on the other side. If Mr Wilson or Mr Trail return you the copy declining to have
any concern in the publication, in that case also you will deliver the copy and letter to Messrs Payne
But if either of them accepts the trust, then you will deliver, to the person so accepting, the letter for
Mr Payne. By this same post or perhaps a post or two later I propose to send a fairer copy to
my Father.
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Crichoff White Russia Dec.r 1786
To Messrs Payne Booksellers Mews Gate London
"Gentlemen Please to publish on my account the pamphlet herewith delivered, being a series
of letters from me to my Father on the plan and uses of a newly imagined kind of building called
an Inspection house. Number of copies, form, type, mode of printing, price &c &c at your
discretion: allowing my father to strike-out any part or even stop the whole if he thinks proper:
with liberty to him to take as many copies as he pleases; reserving however a hundred
to be drawn for on my account by Mr Richard King of the Six Clerks Coffee house Chancery
Lane. Unless you advised otherwise, I should be glad the paper were had at Mr Chapman's
and the printing performed by Mr Hughs."
As we can only afford one set of drawings, we send it you. You will do so as you think best about
the publication of it. The ground plan of the upper Story of the Cells being somewhat different
from that of the lower, my Brother had he thought of it in time would have represented the Upper upon half a side
Copy of a memorandum I took of what I was told at an exhibition of the rejected
Plans for the Penitentiary-houses.
"Sixty-five plans were given in to the Supervisors: and of those rejected 15 were exhibited
by subscription among the Authors." I forget what were the prizes given in those
approved of. I believe £150 to the 1st, £100 to a 2d & £50 to a third. But I
do not know whether there were 3 prizes or only 2.
Dec.r 17. The day before yesterday Sam was obliged to set off for Cherson: but
I expect him back in three weeks. Could he have staid a day longer we should
have given you references on the drawings. But the Messenger who takes this as far as Riga can be
kept no longer.
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