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but Leonardi should have applied to the same
Bookseller. This much however I knew I could
therefore venture to assure him, that Leonardi's bookseller
was not his. He did not positively

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3 o'clock

This instant came your letter dated Chernobyl.
I shall say no more about it till I
have finished my present subject. That from
Pullawa I have never received.

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say he should make the proposal to his bookseller,
but asked leave to call for the other
sheets: and > in that state of uncertainty I quitted
him. I did not care to ask whether he intended
to write, for fear of shewing too much eagerness.

What a blockhead I am drawling through
all these minute details about my management?
What are they all to you exclusive of the want?
The want is that he wrote immediately to his
bookseller: the very next post. If by possibility
the Bookseller should refuse I must then propose
terms to him myself to make up what
deficiency there may be in point of inducement:
such as to take off all that remains of a certain
number of copies at the end of a certain time

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Q.S.P> has been in a bad state of health:
a journey to Bath has set him up again:
He is now about returning.

Oct.r 27. 1780.

A good decent interval of about two months
and two days! and in the mean time I have reced
a a letter from Ple which I answer'd , (about 3 weeks
or a month ago ) and your note from Mittan which
I proceed to answer now. The second letter you mention
to have written from Czerbobyl never came:
here then are two that have miscarried: think
what a gap this must leave in your history,
and what a loss I must be at to know what
you have been about! You must give me some
idea of what you have been doing at ,
and some account of your reception at your
hospitable friends.

You tell me of my letters having been got
into Shairpe's hands & sent rambling up and down
the country, where possibly they may be lost. This the
circumstance has been taken in to consideration by Q.S.P.
and

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Identifier: | JB/539/075/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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