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to pick me up and carry me to Brompton.</p> | to pick me up and carry me to Brompton.</p> | ||
I have transacted the business with <unclear>Otley</unclear>, which | <p>I have transacted the business with <unclear>Otley</unclear>, which | ||
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hung upon me much. | hung upon me much. He is to take back all but 16 of the inla<gap/><!-- margin taped; presumably "inlaid"? --> | ||
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<unclear>'</unclear>steel <add>buttons</add>, and to allow ½ <add>a guinea</add> for the plain cut ones. This half guinea | |||
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alas! goes for the D. of C. As he is so dear, there is no such | |||
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thing as having two of him; but the one I have got you shall | |||
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have, <unclear><foreign>attendu</foreign></unclear> that to me it could give pleasure only, and to you | |||
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it might afford pleasure & profit too. You might produce it before | |||
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him at taking leave or sooner, asking leave to examine it with the | |||
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original: who knows but it might give him occasion to make you | |||
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a present of his picture in another form? What put this into my | |||
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head was, the parable of the nest-eggs in Hudibras.</p> | |||
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1
Friday morning
Yesterday I received your letter — there's a dear good
boy for writing. Yesterday also came one from Q.S.P. to both of us.
Very kind, but = 0 as usual.
I received a day or two ago a letter from Davies in
which he says he shall not go to sea; and I expect him every day
to pick me up and carry me to Brompton.
I have transacted the business with Otley, which
hung upon me much. He is to take back all but 16 of the inla
'steel buttons, and to allow ½ a guinea for the plain cut ones. This half guinea
alas! goes for the D. of C. As he is so dear, there is no such
thing as having two of him; but the one I have got you shall
have, attendu that to me it could give pleasure only, and to you
it might afford pleasure & profit too. You might produce it before
him at taking leave or sooner, asking leave to examine it with the
original: who knows but it might give him occasion to make you
a present of his picture in another form? What put this into my
head was, the parable of the nest-eggs in Hudibras.
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Samuel Bentham |
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