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and see many of my old acquaintances, & some of my younger
dropping almost dayly around me. It is my great satisfaction and
what contributes so much to my health that I find myself
perfectly happy in my Connections Jar & Charles are both of them
in very respectable situations in Life, both in regard to opulence
and Character in their professions & every other respects & Mrs Abbot
the wife of the former is a young Lady of so amiable a disposition
and of such pleasing manners that she cements us all together
her Husband is extremely fond of her, & indeed so are wel all
We dine at each others Houses every other Sunday alternately
when we are in Town, and all the Summertime your Mother
& I are at Mr Abbot's Country House at Putney Heath in
a delightful situation about 7 miles from London. Your
friend Pole Carew, who you know is married to a niece of
Sir Joseph York, goes on increasing his Family, having already
four Children & her Uncle Sir Joseph, just before the King's
illness was created a Peer [by his Majesty's own
without the least solicitation for it) by the Title of Lord Dover,
his Lordship's Country House being at Roehampton
within less than half a mile of Farr's Country House. I have the
pleasure in the Summer of seeing him & calling on him often
and he does me the honour to make very obliging Enquiries
after you, He not only remembers you when at the Hague
he knows a good deal about you since from your friend
Pole Carew — If you should ever visit your own Country again
some of your relations, you will see no more , Mr & Mrs Black
are dead, and so are Mr Willm Kay of Mickfield & his Wife's Ster R
by the death of Mrs Blake & Mr Kay, I know not another now
living, on the side of your Grandmother, except myself & your
Brother & yourself — but these are to be considered merely
as Events & not Losses to you.
Besides the four Books above mentioned, I have lately met with
another entituld "Letters Military and Political translated from
the Italian of Count Algarotti, who was a great mavrick of the
late King of Prussia & from a notion that there are many
things relative to the Military Science in the practise of which
you are now engaged; I will endeavour to send it
you, if I find it practicable, but I am at a loss to whom
to direct the Books for you at Petersburg, for the purpose
of their being conveyed from thence to you at Cherson
I believe it may be best to direct them to Mr Sambousky
whom I shall always esteem & think myself greatly obliged
to for the trouble he gave himself in bringing me your
Picture the sight of which never fails to be accompanied
with my blessing to the original every morning that I pass near
my Drawing Room in view of it — Adieu my dear Sam, & if
in return you have any affection stil left for your Father let him
hear from you soon, as a line from you wod be the most acceptable
present you can make him. Jh Bentham
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