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We have just now <sic>past</sic> Woolwich which is the last place in the River till we come to Gravesend the | |||
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appearance of which is connected with any <del>idea</del> interesting ideas. As we shall probably <del>stop</del> <add>come to anchor</add> abo<gap/><!-- "about"? "above"? --> | |||
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6 hours somewhere near Gravesend I will send you a bit of a letter from thence. Wherever we come to <unclear>anc</unclear><gap/> | |||
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<unclear>our</unclear> Skipper must go ashore at the Custom house at Gravesend, and I must go with him to procure so<gap/> | |||
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provision or starve. You left me so suddenly that we had no opportunity of speaking any of <unclear>thos</unclear> | |||
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kind of speeches to each other which could have answered no purpose but that of furnishing us both with | |||
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such a set of <sic>melencholly</sic> ideas as <unclear>we</unclear> might not for a long time <add>have</add> gotten rid of. It is now so little a time sin<gap/> | |||
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we parted that the Idea of the probability of <unclear>our</unclear> not seeing one another for so long a time had affected me | |||
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<gap/><unclear>ry</unclear> little and I hope we shall <del>both</del> neither suffer much on <del>your</del> <add>this</add> account. We have long intended to | |||
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part on some such occasion <del>an</del> but never could have the expectations of circumstances <sic>favoring</sic> us so much. | |||
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We have just now past Woolwich which is the last place in the River till we come to Gravesend the
appearance of which is connected with any idea interesting ideas. As we shall probably stop come to anchor abo
6 hours somewhere near Gravesend I will send you a bit of a letter from thence. Wherever we come to anc
our Skipper must go ashore at the Custom house at Gravesend, and I must go with him to procure so
provision or starve. You left me so suddenly that we had no opportunity of speaking any of thos
kind of speeches to each other which could have answered no purpose but that of furnishing us both with
such a set of melencholly ideas as we might not for a long time have gotten rid of. It is now so little a time sin
we parted that the Idea of the probability of our not seeing one another for so long a time had affected me
ry little and I hope we shall both neither suffer much on your this account. We have long intended to
part on some such occasion an but never could have the expectations of circumstances favoring us so much.
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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