★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
9
The scolding sheet being written out, now for
news, such as it is that I have to tell you,
which is not much. Poor Code is out of luck.
Leonardo had written twice to his Bookseller
without receiving any answer. About a fortnight
ago he wrote a third time in a more peremptory
state. If an answer does not come as soon
as there is time enough for it to have come,
which will be in about a fortnight, I shall
give up all expectations from that quarter,
and shall try another scheme which
Leonardo in the mean time not getting
any answer stopped his late on
presently, so that there is nothing of it done
to signify. When I had the conversation with him
in consequence of which he wrote (as he told
me at least) his third letter I thought I should
hazard nothing by telling him where his translation
was to go: giving him to understand at
the same time that if I had not been engaged
to him, French was the language I should have
preferred, that being better liked; so that if no
answer should come from the Bookseller by
a certain time, our engagement was at an end
and I should take measures for getting the
book translated into French. That he might
not think I affected secrecy, I let him know
that it was not till after we had come to
an agreement that I knew for certain my
book was to be presented. At the same time
by way of a spur I shewed him an account
in a French review of a present that had
been made to Euler by the Empress of 2000
roubles for his book in ship building, & 100
ducats to a Russian translator. It is droll
enough
---page break---
|
Identifier: | JB/539/071/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1780-08-06 |
|||
|
539 |
|||
|
071 |
|||
|
001 |
|||
|
Correspondence |
|||
|
Jeremy Bentham |
|||
