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Thorpe near Staines Sept. 12. 1779.

Dear Sir

I promised to give you tidings
of my brother when he should have reached the
other side of the water: the kind part you take
in his concerns leaves no room to doubt of your wishing
to see me fulfill my promise. Last Tuesday
sennight being the 24th of August, I left him off Billingsgate
on board a Dutch Eel-boat sailing for
Helvoetsluys. He chose that conveyance in preference to the Harwich packet boat, partly for cheapness,
partly for safety, the packet boat having been once
taken, and several times chaced. His situation was unpleasant,
and his voyage tedious. I heard from him twice
before he got out of the river: once from Gravesend, on the
Wednesday; and again from Lee on the Friday or Saturday.
I was under difficulties with regard to my Father; who not
knowing all the reasons my Brother had for wishing to take Holland
& Hamburgh in his way, wished him, for safety, to accept the offer that was

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Date_1	1779-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	376	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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