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London 6th Novr 1780
Monday morning
I arrived in town yesterday. This morning came
to hand two of your letters: the one the so-much
regretted one from Czernobyl: dated Aug. 1st the other dated Petersbourg
4th Sept.r the day after your return. They
had been withheld from me very good intentions
by a mistake of the same with
that which sent my letters astray from you; with
the difference that my directions were in writing.
Still however yours from Pultacra is wanting,
I hope there was nothing in it very particular.
I sit down to write without loss of time; for various
reasons one of which is to sure you of it
be not not too late, the trouble of writing over again
the contention of that from Czernobyl: which by the
bye came to me under cover directed by you indeed
(on strange brown paper) but without your
seal; indeed without any seal but a lump of
was over which while hot paper with a letter or two on it seemed to have
been stuck and then torn off.
The circumstance you mention in yours of the
4th Sept.r is unfortunate indeed; but I do not see
how it was to have been avoided. As to the
anxiety you express at the apprehension of an abatement
of my affection, that I trust has
been considerably relieved at least if not altogether
dispelled by my letter to your friend,
to whom I wrote the beginning of last month,
as I did to you about the latter end, after
having rece'd your note from Mittau. Before
I cease to love you my Sam, I must have
ceased to love any thing that exists, beginning
with myself. But my affection for you were
if possible for it to be ten times stronger than
it is, could not prevent me from passing in
my own mind such judgment on your conduct
as the data I have before inc, such as
they are, appear to call for: and in the case
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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