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<p>Beans Yard Saturday August 9<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1760.</p> | |||
<p>Dear Papa</p> | |||
<p>I am very sorry I should have given you so much<lb/>trouble by not answering your kind letter by <sic>Thursdays</sic> post;<lb/>but, if you remember, you bid me write to you on Thursday or<lb/>Saturday; and as I was pretty busy on <del>Saturday</del> Thursday, I thought<lb/>it would be sufficient if I did not write till today; or else,<lb/>to be sure, if I thought that you would fully expect a letter<lb/>from me by <sic>Thursdays</sic> post, I should not have been so disobedient<lb/>as to have deferred it till now. Sam has not wrote to<lb/>you as he thought there was no occasion for him to write<lb/>too; he has been to M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Metcalfe's, but he was not at home<lb/>so he left your letter there. as you expected when I saw you<lb/>last some desire of knowing how Flood's affair went on; I<lb/>have the pleasure to acquaint you, (I do not know whether<lb/>you think I ought to be pleased) that he is to go away<lb/>as soon as his Papa comes to England, which will be<lb/>this Month. I will by your leave invite <add>him</add> to dinner on Wednesday<lb/>or Thursday (for I do not know on which we break up) as I trust<lb/>you will not deny me this one kindness at least, for if I</p> | |||
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Beans Yard Saturday August 9th 1760.
Dear Papa
I am very sorry I should have given you so much
trouble by not answering your kind letter by Thursdays post;
but, if you remember, you bid me write to you on Thursday or
Saturday; and as I was pretty busy on Saturday Thursday, I thought
it would be sufficient if I did not write till today; or else,
to be sure, if I thought that you would fully expect a letter
from me by Thursdays post, I should not have been so disobedient
as to have deferred it till now. Sam has not wrote to
you as he thought there was no occasion for him to write
too; he has been to Mr Metcalfe's, but he was not at home
so he left your letter there. as you expected when I saw you
last some desire of knowing how Flood's affair went on; I
have the pleasure to acquaint you, (I do not know whether
you think I ought to be pleased) that he is to go away
as soon as his Papa comes to England, which will be
this Month. I will by your leave invite him to dinner on Wednesday
or Thursday (for I do not know on which we break up) as I trust
you will not deny me this one kindness at least, for if I
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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