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the ... of bringing my son's Picture, to me here from Petersburg, which been the source of the greatest comfort and satisfaction to me, in as much as it gives me so excellent an assemblance of the Original that an account of it's likeness, it could not be exceeded by any of our best Portrait Painters here, and you cannot imagine, at least it is impossible for me to express, the mortification it was to me that when you did me the honour to call and leave it at my House, I was so unfortunate as to be out of Town, and had no opportunity of thanking you in person, for having been the means of the safe conduct of what I set so high a value upon; since nothing could reconcile me so well to the long absence and immense distance of a son that is so much the object of my affection.
... having been informed, he has been for some time closely attentive to the Military Profession in which he is now engaged, and imagining he may possess some genius for Invention, or at least for improvement, I could not resist the opportunity I have had of purchasing some Military Tracts, which I conceive may prove of some use to him as an officer, but I find myself under no small difficult how to get them
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Correspondence |
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Jeremiah Bentham |
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