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'' | <head>Dear Papa July 6<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1761.</head> | ||
<p>I have just now taken a place in Kemp's<lb/> | |||
Machine for <sic>Fryday</sic>, and hope to meet you and M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Blankley<lb/> | |||
at the Pack-horse at Turnham-Green that Evening.<lb/> | |||
I have had a sad misfortune since I wrote to you<lb/> | |||
last, namely the loss of my other Pocket<del>t</del> book in much<lb/> | |||
the same manner as I lost <sic>t'other</sic>, as I was walking<lb/> | |||
with one or two of my Acquaintance a good deal below<lb/> | |||
Christ-church not far from Friar Bacon's Study,<lb/> | |||
<del>ther</del> <add>which</add> place <sic>tho'</sic> perhaps you do not know; there were two<lb/> | |||
Men a quarrelling, and a Multitude of blackguard gathered<lb/> | |||
about them, and some few Gownsmen, and it<lb/> | |||
being a narrow part of the Street, for it grows narrower<lb/> | |||
and narrower, and there it was that somebody stole it out<lb/> | |||
of my <sic>Pockett</sic>; I did catch hold of a Finger that was <gap/><add>very</add><lb/> | |||
near it, but being stronger than I, the owner of it <sic>pull'd</sic> it<lb/> | |||
away before I could turn round. Indeed <sic>'tis</sic> very strange<lb/> | |||
I should lose two pocket-books in that manner, and one of them</p> | |||
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Dear Papa July 6th 1761.
I have just now taken a place in Kemp's
Machine for Fryday, and hope to meet you and Mr Blankley
at the Pack-horse at Turnham-Green that Evening.
I have had a sad misfortune since I wrote to you
last, namely the loss of my other Pockett book in much
the same manner as I lost t'other, as I was walking
with one or two of my Acquaintance a good deal below
Christ-church not far from Friar Bacon's Study,
ther which place tho' perhaps you do not know; there were two
Men a quarrelling, and a Multitude of blackguard gathered
about them, and some few Gownsmen, and it
being a narrow part of the Street, for it grows narrower
and narrower, and there it was that somebody stole it out
of my Pockett; I did catch hold of a Finger that was very
near it, but being stronger than I, the owner of it pull'd it
away before I could turn round. Indeed 'tis very strange
I should lose two pocket-books in that manner, and one of them
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Identifier: | JB/537/130/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537. |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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