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Alas! poor Clark!

Bowood Sept. 30th 1781 1/2 after 10 at
night
Sunday.

Hon:d Sir

Today at dinner I had the favour of yours
of the 29th, which according to my calculation was yesterday.
As to my not seconding my last letter sooner, my own reproaches
anticipated yours: but the fact is, it is with the
utmost difficulty I have been able to find time for even
this short tribute of duty whatever it may prove. All the
time I can get in the morning before breakfast I find it
absolutely necessary for my health to devote to exercise: nor is
even that always enough: for between breakfast & dinner, even
although there should be no party made for anything, I sometimes
find it necessary to get on horseback and shake myself.
It is but now and then that I have been able to get a morning
to bestow upon my book or on a few letters which
for one purpose or other I have had occasion to write. After
dinner, while the gentlemen are still at their bottle, I steal away
to the library where I meet Lady Shelburne and wait
on her to her dressing room: there we have music of some kind or
other, unless there happen to be ladies in the house who are not musically

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Date_1	1781-09-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	244	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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