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Friday Aug Augs 25. 1780
In my last which was of the 9th inst: I told
you I should write again before I went to Thorpe: Anderson is gone back to Scotland: nothing would serve
and so here begins. Shill Buchard Anderson him, poor man, but he must engage in an attempt to set
up a weekly magazine; which failed after 6 numbers.
The plague of it is I do not recollect what I
have write to you in my last about Schiller.
I had heard his translation of Smith's
Wealth of nations highly spoken of by a multitude
of Germans: and in particular Raigertfeldt
recommended it to me to get my book translated
by him if I could. I accordingly called
upon him at his lodgings No 73 High
Street Mary-bone about 10 days ago, taking
with me the three first sheets of Code with
a corrected copy of the Prospectus. I had appointed
a time of meeting by letter: I chose
to go to him that I might judge of the man
the better by the stile he lived in. A
lodging though on the first floor: and though not dirty
fetid to the highest degree ; and the appearance
of the man quite that of the Grub street
Post, tall thin and ugly and seemingly half
starved. He turns out after all to be a
more responsible man than one should
easily meet with, having been 19 years in
this country. I never saw a man enter
more into the spirit of any book than he did
into that of mine, stopping short every now &
then and reading aloud with an emphasis
which plainly showed him to have a thorough
comprehension of the contents: the passages which
seemed to strike him the most were those which
I myself should have pitched upon as the
most striking and watched his countenance, & saw in it all along marks of the most
satisfaction. he asked me with great
eagerness
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Jeremy Bentham |
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