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<p> Archangel Feb<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 26<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> OS 1781</p> <p>Poor Lind! I <sic>cant</sic> help thinking of the man<lb/>He was all together a very extraordinary character.<lb/>For my part I was under great obligation to him :<lb/>I received your letter containing the news of his death<lb/>the day after I arrived here when I was at dinner <lb/>at the house of a Merchant whose acquaintance I <lb/>made by his means at M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Raikes's in London.<lb/>I could not help starting at seeing the words "Lind's<lb/>Death" put at top.</p> <p>The papers which you tell me of your having dispatched<lb/>I hope to receive by my next packet from Petersbourg.<lb/>I got your Dec <hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 29<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> containing the first parcel <lb/> of "<unclear>exper</unclear>": by the last post and "div": came to hand<lb/>before I set out. As to the matter between Peake <lb/>and Harrison I know no more of it than the man<lb/>in the Moon. Sir Charles Douglas's method of <lb/>splicing the yards certainly a good one: but I <sic>cant</sic> say<lb/>so much of your description of it. If it were not for the <lb/>bright genius of my younger brother, thy < | <p> Archangel Feb<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 26<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> OS 1781</p> <p>Poor Lind! I <sic>cant</sic> help thinking of the man<lb/>He was all together a very extraordinary character.<lb/>For my part I was under great obligation to him :<lb/>I received your letter containing the news of his death<lb/>the day after I arrived here when I was at dinner <lb/>at the house of a Merchant whose acquaintance I <lb/>made by his means at M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Raikes's in London.<lb/>I could not help starting at seeing the words "Lind's<lb/>Death" put at top.</p> <p>The papers which you tell me of your having dispatched<lb/>I hope to receive by my next packet from Petersbourg.<lb/>I got your Dec <hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 29<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> containing the first parcel <lb/> of "<unclear>exper</unclear>": by the last post and "div": came to hand<lb/>before I set out. As to the matter between Peake <lb/>and Harrison I know no more of it than the man<lb/>in the Moon. Sir Charles Douglas's method of <lb/>splicing the yards certainly a good one: but I <sic>cant</sic> say<lb/>so much of your description of it. If it were not for the <lb/>bright genius of my younger brother, thy <sic>scribling</sic> would<lb/>have been to little purpose.</p> | ||
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Archangel Feby 26th OS 1781
Poor Lind! I cant help thinking of the man
He was all together a very extraordinary character.
For my part I was under great obligation to him :
I received your letter containing the news of his death
the day after I arrived here when I was at dinner
at the house of a Merchant whose acquaintance I
made by his means at Mr Raikes's in London.
I could not help starting at seeing the words "Lind's
Death" put at top.
The papers which you tell me of your having dispatched
I hope to receive by my next packet from Petersbourg.
I got your Dec r 29th containing the first parcel
of "exper": by the last post and "div": came to hand
before I set out. As to the matter between Peake
and Harrison I know no more of it than the man
in the Moon. Sir Charles Douglas's method of
splicing the yards certainly a good one: but I cant say
so much of your description of it. If it were not for the
bright genius of my younger brother, thy scribling would
have been to little purpose.
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Samuel Bentham |
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