JB/537/130/001

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Dear Papa July 6th 1761.

I have just now taken a place in Kemp's
Machine for Fryday, and hope to meet you and Mr Blankley
at the Pack-horse at Turnham-Green that Evening.
I have had a sad misfortune since I wrote to you
last, namely the loss of my other Pockett book in much
the same manner as I lost t'other, as I was walking
with one or two of my Acquaintance a good deal below
Christ-church not far from Friar Bacon's Study,
ther which place tho' perhaps you do not know; there were two
Men a quarrelling, and a Multitude of blackguard gathered
about them, and some few Gownsmen, and it
being a narrow part of the Street, for it grows narrower
and narrower, and there it was that somebody stole it out
of my Pockett; I did catch hold of a Finger that was very
near it, but being stronger than I, the owner of it pull'd it
away before I could turn round. Indeed 'tis very strange
I should lose two pocket-books in that manner, and one of them

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Date_1	1761-07-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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