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dine out <add>at Browne's</add> & have nothing to put on - I can return it you <del><unclear>upon</unclear></del> if you | dine out <add>at Browne's</add> & have nothing to put on - I can return it you <del><unclear>upon</unclear></del> if you | ||
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want it particularly on Friday night. —No — that was my mistake - it is | want it particularly on Friday night. — No — that was my mistake - it is | ||
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tomorrow that I want the waistcoat: and tomorrow it is not <unclear>ha<gap/> | tomorrow that I want the waistcoat: and tomorrow it is not <unclear>ha<gap/>rable</unclear>.</p> | ||
<p>Eight <unclear>o</unclear> clock <unclear>come</unclear> and I have no letter from you | |||
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in answer to mine of Saturday — I am perfectly astonished. | |||
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I fear it may have miscarried: yet I gave it with my own hands | |||
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<unclear>into</unclear> those of honest Davies the Postman.</p> | |||
<p>In consequence of your letter of Sunday I called on Q.S.P.'s | |||
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Burton to see if he knew of any body that was going to the trial. | |||
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(Wilson knew nobody & Lind has not been at chambers.) He <add>(Burton)</add> said that | |||
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he had refused an invitation O'Byrne had given him promising to find <add>him</add></p> | |||
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S.B. to I.B. Linc.Inn Jan.5.1779
"I need not tell you what pleasure it gave me to find
"Mr Sambouski expressing such sentiments with regard to the
"improvement of useful knowlege in his country; nor how glad I
"should be to co-operate promote as far as my small ability extends, with
"such laudable intentions. commendable wishes views. I need not recal to you the feasts we
"have so often given ourselves treated our imaginations with, when we have been contemplating the
"progress of improvement in that rising country. I would strain a
"point rather than miss of any opportunity of lending a helping
"hand, though it be ever so distant an one in the prosecution
"of such a business. I don't see however how we can well settle
"the matter definitively and talk over all that is to be said on the subject at this distance: I have determined therefore
"that as soon as the Court Martial is over if Mr Sambouski
"continues to think of me in the same light, I will to come to town".
[This will give you the merit of coming on purpose
I.B. to S.B.
You must send me back my waistcoat on Thursday. On Friday I
dine out at Browne's & have nothing to put on - I can return it you upon if you
want it particularly on Friday night. — No — that was my mistake - it is
tomorrow that I want the waistcoat: and tomorrow it is not harable.
Eight o clock come and I have no letter from you
in answer to mine of Saturday — I am perfectly astonished.
I fear it may have miscarried: yet I gave it with my own hands
into those of honest Davies the Postman.
In consequence of your letter of Sunday I called on Q.S.P.'s
Burton to see if he knew of any body that was going to the trial.
(Wilson knew nobody & Lind has not been at chambers.) He (Burton) said that
he had refused an invitation O'Byrne had given him promising to find him
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Jeremy Bentham |
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