JB/539/470/001

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circ 1786-4

JB to DrB

Dear Sir
We had the pleasure of receiving your kind
letter much about the time I believe, in which it
ought to have been received. I wish I could have
added that I answered it at the time at which
it ought to have been answered. I have been waited for events
in hopes that some odd section in the chapter of
accidents might turn up that might enable me to
answer it in the way we all wish. To be sure
there was a middle course to take which I might
and ought to have taken viz. acknowledging the
receipt of it immediately as you deserved and
taking at the earliest opportunity of giving you
at least what payment might be afforded by our
thanks.

Sefton, though the Dr whose to take bring him
for his own accommodation with him here by post instead of letting him go
by water with his wife & daughter, is however
here, and being here remains in my Brother's service.
My Brother therefore will allow the Dr so
much as coming have would have cost
had he gone by water as at first designed: and
by allowing the affect of him allowing as he would
allow it the Dr he may therefore allow it if comes
to the same thing this trifle therefore he is enabled
without doing himself injustice to add to the other
trifles which he allows you.

But though I have taken upon me this high office
of Secretary, I do not in every instance give his business
quite so much dispatch as a less uppish one
might give: pleading in excuse the office which might of

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Identifier: | JB/539/470/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-??-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	470	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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