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Letter to Foster Petersburgh

no dinner, and sups on milk and vegetables. Fermented
liquors he drinks none. With all this his complexion
is florid and his mi frame robust. He fears
no contagion: he has been in in many a gaol so pestilential,
that the Gaoler himself has not been set foot or in it
for months. He is no crack brained enthusiast: The qualities of his head are scarcely
inferior to those of his heart. His book is a model
for method and for the sort of stile that is
competent to his subject. He carries his plan with
him in his head. He is set down at the door
of a prison puts a certain number of questions proposes questions makes enquiries under a certain number
of heads and which exhaust the subject, does his business and drives
off again to another. His thoughts, his conversation, his writings
are devoted confined to this single one object. Prospects,
palaces & pictures he passes by with an indifference
equal to that of the Cynic and much better
grounded. He is so well known now among
the class of people he has to deal with, that his
name flies every where before him. Honest gaolers
receive him with open arms: dishonest (ones)
tremble at his approach. He makes renders both sorts
alike pliant to his purpose: the one by their hopes,
the other by their fears. His speech discourse is fluent &
ready: his eye piercing. Practise has made him
familiar with all their arts and all their ways:
when he has addressed himself to any of them for
the first time he has commonly been taken for
an officer of the police. a brother of the profession. Practice has given him He has at length acquired
such a command over them, that in his last tour
(for he has gone over England more than once)

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56927
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