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Gluboka 30 versts fr below Cherson in the Dnieper
May 22d OS 1788.

Hond Sir

The distance is so great between us and the news you have
from hence so very & uncertain that I cannot but
think it my duty under the present circumstances to write
you a few lines every now & then if it be only to assure
you of my existence. I have told you that my division
consists of the Bomb & five vessels the Turkish fleet at
Ochakoff is augmenting every day; but our flotilla we trust
will be a match for them: I am affraid however it will
be some time before anything decisive be done.

In health I am as well as you can wish me to be

I have no news from my brother of his arrival in England
but I hope you are together long ago. The circumstance
I am in at present I hope will excuse the shortness of
my letters the object of which are only to assure you
of the affection & sense of duty with which I remain
Yours Saml Bentham.

Recd at Putney Heath July 22d 1788

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