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Postmaster I mean the Shoemaker who lives opposite me: & it has | Postmaster I mean the Shoemaker who lives opposite me: & it has | ||
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been crowned with success. | been crowned with success. I should have told you for what | ||
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I mean, to get back your letter. This evening <add>afternoon</add> came a formal | |||
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note from D. by <unclear>his</unclear> servant to invite me to eat an oyster | |||
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with him at <add>½ after</add> 8 in the evening: <del><gap/></del> & thus it was I learnt | |||
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that she was come to Town. | |||
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Feb. 24. 1779.
I committed a Benthamism on your letter to Mrs D:
but it turned out more fortunately than it deserved. I forgot to
put it into the post till this afternoon; and this evening she is
come to Town. I have been using all my rhetoric with the
Postmaster I mean the Shoemaker who lives opposite me: & it has
been crowned with success. I should have told you for what
I mean, to get back your letter. This evening afternoon came a formal
note from D. by his servant to invite me to eat an oyster
with him at ½ after 8 in the evening: & thus it was I learnt
that she was come to Town.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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