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Now for discussing the article of arriving, aboding, figuring &c.
You tell me to come first straight to Mr Browne's, from thence to you
certainly this is what I would most wish: but when Q.S.P. knows this
will it not give him real uneasiness? Know it he will for he will question
and I cannot lye, with my tongue, yes: but so many precautions necessary
to desire that not worth while to save him the degree of suffering.

With respect to my abode he has written me to Leghorn that my Mother
has set about preparing a bed & chamber for me: to this I shall now
answer that from the impossibility of conforming myself to the regularity
of his house I should be a very inconvenient lodger and that I will
by no means expose myself to giving him in that way uneasiness.
how or where I mean to lodge I shall say nothing, he will conclude
I have written to you and perhaps may enquire if which case
you please. If you would quit your Zadobra
that together while I am in Town it is your
that should be most consulted in the lodgings: but if you call that being
idle, and have no other way if dispersing of me find me a lodging
of 3 rooms in a good part of the Town. I hope to spend but
little time in town and rather to visit such of my friends as will take
me in at their country houses. When I left Jassy having no
servant but Russians with me I left them and was served in the
road by those of my travelling companions: so that unless I find
a prodigy I shall come to England without any. There I must find
a man who dresses hair & shaves to make a Valet de chamber of, and
I suppose while in Town I must have a carriage & consequently
another Servant. A carriage I would buy to take with me to Russia,
& a pair of horses likewise as without that I must have to hire 6 ordinary horses at
Petersburg according to what will probably then be my rank: but I suppose job horses best while
in England as they may be taken & let go occasionally.

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Date_1	1791-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	248	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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