JB/539/044/001

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You don't take sufficient care to separate
the ostensible from the inostensible part of your
letters. Q.S.P. has himself been suggesting
the expediency of writing on separate slips
of paper.

11 Peake &c

n* When G or S. return, or
any private conveyance offers,
suppose you were to send me
any thing that you could pick
up worth sending to L. S.

On Saturday I wrote to peake,
copying your words, mentioning your
illness as a reason for your not being more
particular, & telling him of the offers made you ( ) without naming the
Salary, I don't see after all that you
have much choice of any of these
people. I don't see what you can
have to offer them. Marberry shrunk
back at the idea of the cold, in Courland. If you should ever have to make
them offers, you should write tot hem
yourself: it will be safer (as you are
out of the Kingdom) and more engaging
to them, than if I were to do it.

12. Agency

The offers made on Pet.h will be an excellent
basis for you to go upon in your negotiation
with for the agency: & if you will have the most of making
a great sacrifice: and 2, if you are thought
fit to be trusted with such important concerns, a factori
with the other lesser ones. perhaps it was
something of this sort that you were waiting for. If he listens to the proposal, you may bring to his view
the contingency of his [your losing the place by] his dying
in which case you could be left without employ.
This might be a ground for demanding some little
matter perhaps, such as a hundred a year or so
not subject to such contingency : a contingency which
you would not be subject to at Petersb: because let
the Emp. die it would not be likely to make any
difference. The Marche must go on just the same.

13 Foster

Thank him cordially in my name, for the trouble he
gave himself about my letter.

As Foster is coming back to England, be aware
of that circumstance of his being catechized
by Q.S.P. (particularly about your overturn &
illness) & take care accordingly that eh should be possessed
of no notion: but what you wish Q.S.P. to entertain

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Identifier: | JB/539/044/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-05-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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