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altogether in spite of the continued incessant reproaches of my most confidential friends, the plan of
gradual and successive establishment which I had settled with my Brother and I had agreed
upon for his numerous inventions, and which was suited to
the nature and extent of my private fortune. Patent
has been ad The number of men accordingly has been at least doubled.
all at extra wages, and
forming altogether not an
assortment as with the instruction
they have received is
hardly I believe to be matched
A large considerable house and Workshop have been added to what you
saw. Materials for the projected building erection have been laid
in: a part of it has even been put together. Patent
has been added to Patent: (this part of the expense alone An object of itself of between
amounting to between being of £600 and £7000) which the
term for making advantage of term allotted to the exercise of those clean bought privileges has been mouldering
away. The term for which I had calculated the duration duration which in my calculations I had allowed
to of this expenditure is now elapsed extra forced disbursement is on the point of elapsing: I can continue it
no longer. A person with whom I had agreed for A little can I now retreat into the original plan
of limited expenditure. A person with whom I had agreed for
the sale of an estate of between £6000 and £7000
value which was to fetch me about £7,000 has within these few days declared off: the circumstances
of the times have left the execution of the agreement he says no longer in his
power: the sale of other estates: I had allotted for the purpose
is becoming more and more precarious. The estates There are
time being about <add> moreover circumstances belonging to these estates that make
are so circumstanced that money would could not be borrowed again
Now the As to borrowing money upon them would be tedious these are circumstances
which render it rather a rather difficult, and at any rate a tedious operation business had
I I ever so much time to attend to it: and I will have as to money obtainable through loans of favour you will may judge
whether how far the failure of a great and apparently mad eccentric project is an auspicious
period for making experiments on a large scale on the confidence of friends.
On the other hand Money which was lent me by persons of very ample
ability untill for the declared purpose of my keeping it my those estates I had declared for sale should be
sold disposed of is now, on a diminution of that ability called in
although the Estates remain unsold and for ought I know I know not how long
unsaleable
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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