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My dear Sam My Brother who is at Chatham
London night April 30th
How shall I find words to describe
to you the scenes I have witness these
few days been <add> a witness of & an actor in! You will
never know how to wonder enough at some
part of the story I have to tell you: but
your wonder will be a most joyful one.
Conceive my mother, our mother I must
from henceforward call her, acting the
part of most zealous disinterested friend,
to me and you will conceive no more than what
is most unquestionably true. The grand<lb/. discovery has been made: and probably before
this I conclude this letter, my destiny will
be definitely settled:
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Monday morn 6 o'clock
I don't know where
to begin hardly, nor where to choose, among
the multitude of things I could wish to tell
you. I must touch upon every thing as
slightly as possible.
I have not yet heard form Capt: Carleton
in answer to the Volume which I shewd
you. Nor do I wonder at it, since the dispatch
of that volume was retarded, by some
circumstances that intervened, till Tuesday
last. Nor am I much concerned about
it, as my fate will not turn upon it
at all.
It was on Friday the discovery was made
I dined at Q.S.P. Taking a turn in the garden after dinner,
my mother came up with me —
"so Mr Jerry, I hear strange stories of
"you" — Indeed, Madam? what stories?"
with a look of some anxiety — "Oh, no
"harm at all, only that you are a
"smitten with a pretty
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"I ask you whether it is so or no"? — I
could not have wished for a fairer opportunity
Her looks were kind — My stomach was quiet,
I was in a conversable humour. My Father
had been just then telling me of a piece
of good fortune that had happened in the
falling in of ma Reversion of about £40 a
year. We were all in high spirits upon
the occasion and a party had been formed
to go down to Pyenest
as day, to
take a view (for some legal purposes)of the
new acquisition. I am this instant setting
out, and so good morning to you.
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Wednesday
The affair ending so unhappily
I had not the heart to finish my narrative:
so this letter was never sent.
To be short, my Uncle who had provided<lb/. me his house, retracted. he
and my Father (my Uncle tho' a well-meaning
man is of a cold misgiving
apprehensive temper) set one another against
my wishes: and all my Mother-in-Law
could say on my behalf was
unavailing.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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