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In future let all letters be sent by way of Riga
for I have now received yours of the 18th of March
and it is but 4/15 of April. This is less than a Month
yet the roads are almost unpassable. By the date of
a letter from Mr Hay of Riga which inclosed yours
I find that your letters came there in 15 days and from
thence here in 13.
Riddick's Sweetheart
If she is any way industrious let her come
out by a;; means: but I hope you have
not forgotten to provide me a cookmaid.
All clever females not too prudish nor
may be very usefull
and find
themselves not uncomfortable in this country.
Glass <p. The window drinking glass you have drawn me is
as near as possible the shape which I have
before given the glasshouse to work by.
I am in great expectation but at a loss
to imagine what the immense weight of
2268 lb can consist of as I do not recollect
having ordered anything but specimens of instruments.
Incyclop. Brit:
I have received the compleat set all
bound except the 10th Vol.
Cane.
Dont forget to let me have any cane which
Mr Samboursky tells me he left at your chambers
though you were absent whiles he was in
England.
Poor Hyman has lost two of his
children which has made him very
melancholy and at least for the present
seems to have made him consider this
misfortune as a scourge of the Lord.
April 8th <p. I hope not only this but other letters which
I may write to you a week or fortnight hence
may reach you before you set out although
your departure should take place in the first week
in June.
This writing by the way of Riga
seems far eligible to the tedious delays of
the Post and of my friends at Petersburgh.
Were it not for the dread of your suffering
from disappointments and dissatisfaction from
your correspondence with the Prince, I should be
mighty happy at the thoughts of our meeting.
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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