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1820. Novr 18 J.B. to Mora In speaking of the necessity of my working,
if at all, upon a compleatly independent footing,
nothing could be further from my wishes than that
of being the sole workman. It would not be fit I should,
even on the suppositionof my being, in even so high a
degree, more competent than every other. For, age
or faculties might terminate at any time before any
considerable progress has been made in the work:
and, in that case, on the supposition that nothing was
done towards it by any body else, there would be some
much time lost. What I reckon upon, therefore, as an indispensable measure in— that, whether I receive
the Commission or not, the Committee is going on
with its labours, just as if no such individual as myself
were in existence: in which case, even on the supposition
that, for the basis, my work came to be prefered
to that of the Committee, still with regard to a
multitude of local points in respecti of which I should
be necessarily at a fault, provision will have been
made by the Committee in regard to what it might
be perhaps be agreeable to them afterwards to receive my
observations. Another thing I should very glad to
see is — an ivitation from authority for as many

Identifier: | JB/013/064/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	064	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	copy of letter 2713, vol. 10	ID Number	4513
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