JB/010/028/001

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J.B. to Baron de Lessert 4
My memry, enfabled as it is has not yet however lost any
of the traces, of the few agreable moments, which, in spite of severe
and to me almost unprecedented till then unexperienced bodily pain, I passed in
1802 at Paris at your house company at Paris and at Passy at
Madam Gautiers . Of Madam Gautiers the place which
I had the honour of pr in Madame Gautiers that lady's remembrance
I had even now and then the pleasure of receiving
tokens from our ever lamented friends in Russell Square Madam la Baronne
de Lessert in your wife who was then skipping about prancing from room to room
in a state of virgin maiden innocence, can not possibly have
been sensible to the existence had cognizance of my existence, unless it
be were by the glow, with which the sight of a stupid old
man, with deaf and aching ears, may have damped
the gaiety of the rest of the company. I have not perhaps not quite a as
bad a dancer with M. Garnier, then Prefect, made Comte then since Comte
or Marquis Past, and for might I think I have heard was Marquis, and at any rate and I know not what all
besides. If he is a man like other men, and in particular
like Mr Trimsham, the evidence I gave him of the imposition made upon
me by his discoveries in relation to the monetary sypher
of ancient Rome, as detailed in his translation of
Adam Smith, he does did something for me. Should Mr Blaquiere become known to you, perhaps you might give him the additional honour of being known to Mr Garnier. Of The only per
One person of your family the remembrance of whom (would you
think it?) still a source not of significance is not pleasurable to rather of uneasiness
to me than satisfaction is Madam de Lessert your mother. As I have
This; for the chanc chance of making the your ladies with a laugh,
they shall have one I will give them one, matter for one, though it be at my own expence.
At that dinner, of which I partook at your house
there were I suppose not fewer so few than twenty in company, all
of the masculine gender — all of them compleatly unknown to me. As we went marched in procession from the drawing room
to the dining room, I observed Madam de Lesserts arm hand
by stuck by her side, waiting for some other hold to take hold of
it. It had never entered into my conuption, that the honor honour could be designed
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Date_1	1820-11-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	jb to baron de lessert
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2722, vol. 10	ID Number	3464
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