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4. Letters
This is the 3d letter I have written through>lb/> Sneyd, all since my return from Brampton.
Your two of April 8.& 11 came on Saturday.
By the two you will have seen how I
am engaged in , and therefore I dare say
have given up the idea of my visiting Petersburgh
in a hurry. 5. Money As to the money-investing
scheme I am sorry you should have set your
heart so much on it as you appear to have
done. If it had depended only on myself I
should have been contented probably to have
pinned my faith upon your judgment, but
I much wonder you should be so sanguine
in your expectations that Q.S.P. should. Contrary
however to all expectation he did seem
to lend an ear to it upon reading the ostensible
letter (April 8th)in which the subject is lightly
touched, and went so far as top talk of raising
to the extent formerly proposed. I then thought
I could do no than leave him the
other ( all but the 1/2 against Q.S.P.)
(We were alone together at Q.S.P.) This
however blew up the scheme altogether. You
talked on 10 money things at once, that they
quite confounded him. I had begun with assuring
him (before I shew'd him any either of the
letters) that I for my part should not think
of going. This was a great comfort to him.
This was yesterday [Sunday 7th
] This morning Monday
8th) he came to me and we discussed it. he began
bellowing against it; but I soon
made him lower his note: however the result
is that he will do no such thing. The truth
is, that he ahs been ever so well disposed
it is much to be doubted whether he could
effected it: Money is scarcer here than you
can conceive. What you throw out at random
about going to the Ukraine without any earthly reason
but
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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