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commission given in general turns, without any
stipulation liquidating the mode &or quantive of payment,
in short just as Mr Henderson was by
you for the mine - share and for the litharge
which amongst other things I have passed by
unnoticed. What proportion of his time Mr
Playfair gave to this agency I can notas yet prebind
to say: all that I know is that it could not be
much.:[+] mechanical businesses which [+] certainly not so much as the share nothing which which in equal periods you employ'd Mr Henderson employ'd for you; scarcely soI dare believe not so much in the three years as he employ'd for you in one.
are very numerous and very complicated, occupying
a large building and a great multitude
of hands, as I myself can witness having gone over
them restedcan witness, rested entirely upon him as well for
the residing partcommercial as the manufacturing part,
exclusively upon him: and as to ingenuity and
skill, in the agency business every thing of that sort was plainlyout of the question:
[+] Po day the partnership broke up; Mr [+] any common Clerk might have done just as well as a Mr Playfair or even a Mr Henderson.
Playfair thereupon claimed a satisfaction was due for his
trouble in this agency: that a satisfaction was due was admitted
at the first word. The question was how
much: Mr Playfair claimed, I forget what:
it came however first or last to £500£270. Mr
Blair, dissatisfied with him to the highest degree

Identifier: | JB/169/136/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field	jb for henderson to gullet
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f19 / f20 / f21 / f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	56956
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