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Let me have my stockings as soon as you can
I have none to wear that are decent

Wilson is ambitious of the honour of your correspondence
He would be very happy to receive a letter from you
though it were only a blank piece of paper: indeed
to speak the truth that is all I believe he wishes for
To explain the mystery, you are to know he wishes to
try whether a letter would reach him that should be directed
simply "T to "G. Wilson Esq:" Cook's Court London
in order to diminish as much as may be the
trouble of writing Franks — You may bestow on him
therefore the value of half a sheet of paper full
of nothing by th return of the post - at least do not
say any thing to him or to me that is of any consequence
for fear the experiment should not succeed.

I have been hard at work for your honour
upon the Memorial: but I must have Comyns ere
I can go on. In short I must learn Watchmaking I see: in order
to understand the manner in which your apparatus
can be adapted to the other work: and in order to see
how much of the other Harrison's work it may supersede. This I
doubt will not be much: no more than that part which
is calculated to obviate> the effects of heat & cold, and which
he calls the Thermometer - kirb: which makes but a small

Identifier: | JB/538/019/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	019	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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