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Tuesday Feb. 13. 1 o'clock 1781
Now for a very odd sort of a story which our
travelling cousin G.B. has just now been and
told me. As I told you before Banks had promised
him his interest with Ld S. for a Pursership. that was I believe about 6 weeks or 2 months ago.
Being dismissed from time to time,
Banks had put him off from time to time
telling him that he must wait a little, that
his Ldship as he might imagine was much
pester'd
with Sollicitations, and hamperd with
former promises. In the mean time Allen
(Master Painter at Woolwich)had talked
to him about the state of his expectations,
and told him he could put him into a
much surer channel. thereupon he gave
him a letter to a Mrs Steele at a shop
where they sell Essence of Spruce for beer,
& which is opposite to the Admiralty: I
dare say you remember it; a very spruce
shop indeed; where they sold nothing else.
(now indeed they do a few other things)
The firm of the shop is Steele and Townson.
The history of them is as follows.
There are two sisters, Mrs Steele and a Mrs
with a German name (he could not recollect
it precisely)
something like Switch; we
will call her Mrs Switch. They have a
brother whose name is Hughes, & who is
a slater (I think it is) by trade: they
have also a cousin a Mrs Townson who
is the other partner in the Shop. Mrs Steele
Mrs Switch and Mrs Townson are all married.
Mr & Mrs Steele & Mr & Mrs Townson live together in this house: and I believe
Mr & Mrs Hughes likewise. Mrs
Switch and Mrs Steele are both visited by
Ld North. Mrs Switch does not live in that
house, but in another in Dicem Street, which
has a door into the park. She lives very retired.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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