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p Bokopol Jan:y 16: 1786

I have within this hour my dear Father, received
your letter of the 4th of Nov:r and though
I hope to be the bearer of this it as far
as Crichoff which will be its most expeditious
if not nearest-route, yet having a few hours,
if not days, of necessary leisure, I can not employ
the present moment better than by sitting down
under the first impressions to acknowledge the
pleasure which yours afforded me. the letter that puzzled
you never passed through the hands of
Mr Milford. I mention this that you may
let him see it by the first opportunity:
As the time of its reaching you would be uncertain,
I made use of a 3d person to
convey to my Brother with speed, such part
of its contents as it might be natural he should
be informed of.

You do not mention your having received
the parcel I sent you from Paris by
Capt. Brook, it contains Stockings, gloves
&c of Beaver & Vigugna wool. I thought I
had mentioned it in one of my letters by
post, besides one which was to accompany
the parcel.

As to the news about appointment
it might have been true and may at
any time if he pleases, but was not then
whatever it may be. So sayd a person
at Constantinople who if it had been true
could not but have known. [P.S> After all it
actually is true the reason of it being denied to me so late
as Dec:r by the Russian Envoy at Constantinople is perfectly inconable. Feb: 16th

Against you revisit Bath, the seat of
chitchat and gambling, I will give you an
instruction by which you may make a fortune.
Whenever you see in a newspaper an article from Petersburgh,
lay 2 to one if from Constantinople, 5 to one;
that it is not true. At the latter place I amused
myself with reading accounts of I know
not what commotions at a time when they
were as quiet as Lambs: and every body concurred
in assuring me that it was rare to find
an article which purporting to come from that capital
that had a syllable of truth in it. if such be
the case in this enlighten'd age when correspondences
are so abundant and so publick &
where

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Identifier: | JB/540/240/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1786-01-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	240	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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