JB/010/021/001

Click Here To Edit 1820 Nov. 28 sent Dec 19
J. B. to Rochefoucault1
Jeremy Bentham to the Duc de la Rochefoucault
Dear Sir
Do you remember any such name? Ao 1792
at Queens Squar Place Westminster; Ao 1802 at Learcour?
I will make the experiment. For my part weak and decayed
as is my
memory as to most
things, the
hospitalities of that place — the confusing — every
thing else belonging to it — are almost as fresh in my mind
this day as they were in the next to that: the ladies
whom I dare not name, blond dreading the blunders I should make fearful I of
on the ground of French genealogical nomenclature
of in which I never would pass
my performing, bred as I was in England where, of a
were not for peerage (which deliverance
from) would on this ground against
science: The Comte de la Rochefoucault — (I think I am right there) who had the goodness to shew
me the providentially — saved library — and who,
been any use in it, might have passed any where for
an Englishman — a name then already beginning to grate
and now a disgrace. The picture he gave me, on that occasion of a certain
Commander in Chief of ours was not borne thrown away upon<lb/>me: was the master of the Ita
me. When he went to Vienna, my eyes followed him in
the Newspapers — my wishes making that decomposition
which in war time is so common — bespeaking
for its diplornalist that disappointment and at the same which as an Englishman
I could do no otherwise than & , and at the same
time for the individual every prosperity that was
compatible with it. the disappointments which we are Englishmen I
but wish to the Ambassador.

Identifier: | JB/010/021/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1820-11-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	jb to rochefoucault
Image	001	Titles	jeremy bentham to the duc de la rochefoucault
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	[[notes_public::letter 2723, vol. 10; "sent decr 19" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	3457
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