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Bath 20<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> December 1792< | |||
<p>Bath 20<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> December 1792</p> | |||
<p>I am extremely obliged to you, my dear Sir, for your letter,<lb/>but I assure you that you very much over-rate and<lb/>over-thank me for my feeble efforts in the cause in question.<lb/>I am certainly well-pleased that the invention should be<lb/>yours, because I think it does you infinite honour; but<lb/>had it been that of a perfect stranger, I should have<lb/>recommended it with the same zeal, being persuaded<lb/>that <sic>it's</sic> adoption would be a most important public<lb/>benefit. - <foreign>au reste</foreign>. I am utterly unable to divine when<lb/>and where I may have been fortunate enough to produce<lb/>the favourable <unclear>improvising</unclear> to which you seem to allude.</p> | |||
<p>I shall be in town about New Year's Day, and will call<lb/>upon you immediately after my arrival, which indeed<lb/>I should have done equally, if I had not heard from you.<lb/>During my late tour I have seen some of our most<lb/>celebrated provincial places of confinement, and particularly<lb/>that at Gloucester, but the plan of none of them seems<lb/>to me to be in any degree comparable to yours. I confess<lb/>however that I have still my doubts whether,if your</p> | |||
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Bath 20th December 1792
I am extremely obliged to you, my dear Sir, for your letter,
but I assure you that you very much over-rate and
over-thank me for my feeble efforts in the cause in question.
I am certainly well-pleased that the invention should be
yours, because I think it does you infinite honour; but
had it been that of a perfect stranger, I should have
recommended it with the same zeal, being persuaded
that it's adoption would be a most important public
benefit. - au reste. I am utterly unable to divine when
and where I may have been fortunate enough to produce
the favourable improvising to which you seem to allude.
I shall be in town about New Year's Day, and will call
upon you immediately after my arrival, which indeed
I should have done equally, if I had not heard from you.
During my late tour I have seen some of our most
celebrated provincial places of confinement, and particularly
that at Gloucester, but the plan of none of them seems
to me to be in any degree comparable to yours. I confess
however that I have still my doubts whether,if your
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