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I have just been doing a thing which Q. S. P. would
shirk the use of poor simple mortal that had no regard to his own
interest: others perhaps might think in an act of supreme magnanimity.
The truth is it is neither the one nor the other; but
an act done in perseverance of I hope not a dishonest regard to what I take to be my own interest— In my last I told you about
friend Pilate. Scher. was to write to him this
evening. It came in my head this morning to write a note or
rather letter to Scher. pr recommending it to him to press Pilate
to write for the I had handed it to him last night To have such a concurrence
I said would be a matter of honour to me if I succeeded,
and of consolation if I failed. I urged all the arguments that
I could have urged if I had been ever indesirous of
his embracing the proposed: Indeed I putting him in of
the impress Volumes &c. and of the book that he has already written

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Date_1	1778-10-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	247	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number
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