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<p> Petersbourg March 9<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1783 .</p> <p> It is now above a fortnight that I have your letter of the 28<hi rend="superscript">th</hi><lb/>Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> in my pocket reading it every day and have not as yet sent <lb/>any answer to it. The indeterminateness of my situation, your<lb/>vehement reproaches and a consciousness of my deserving these for <lb/>the trouble & uneasiness I have given my father & you and in <lb/>short all my friends in England render me hitherto incapable of <lb/>writing any kind of letter to him. and I must own to you that <lb/>I feel that nothing less than your threat of writing to Sir J. H. <lb/>at the expiration of the 3 months could force me to get the better <lb/>of this reluctancy. You need not doubt however but that that threat<lb/>will operate the desired effect of such importance I conceive it to be<lb/>to me in every respect to stand well with him.</p> <p>The papers which I sent to you by a M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Kapper I trust to for giving<lb/>you some little satisfaction, by proving to you that I have not been</p> <pb/> | <p> Petersbourg March 9<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1783 .</p> | ||
<p> It is now above a fortnight that I have your letter of the 28<hi rend="superscript">th</hi><lb/>Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> in my pocket reading it every day and have not as yet sent <lb/>any answer to it. The indeterminateness of my situation, your<lb/>vehement reproaches and a consciousness of my deserving these for <lb/>the trouble & uneasiness I have given my father & you and in <lb/>short all my friends in England render me hitherto incapable of <lb/>writing any kind of letter to him. and I must own to you that <lb/>I feel that nothing less than your threat of writing to Sir J. H. <lb/>at the expiration of the 3 months could force me to get the better <lb/>of this reluctancy. You need not doubt however but that that threat<lb/>will operate the desired effect of such importance I conceive it to be<lb/>to me in every respect to stand well with him.</p> <p>The papers which I sent to you by a M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Kapper I trust to for giving<lb/>you some little satisfaction, by proving to you that I have not been</p> <pb/> | |||
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Petersbourg March 9th 1783 .
It is now above a fortnight that I have your letter of the 28th
Jany in my pocket reading it every day and have not as yet sent
any answer to it. The indeterminateness of my situation, your
vehement reproaches and a consciousness of my deserving these for
the trouble & uneasiness I have given my father & you and in
short all my friends in England render me hitherto incapable of
writing any kind of letter to him. and I must own to you that
I feel that nothing less than your threat of writing to Sir J. H.
at the expiration of the 3 months could force me to get the better
of this reluctancy. You need not doubt however but that that threat
will operate the desired effect of such importance I conceive it to be
to me in every respect to stand well with him.
The papers which I sent to you by a Mr Kapper I trust to for giving
you some little satisfaction, by proving to you that I have not been
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Samuel Bentham |
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