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that which I have just received; and if that should not have been
sufficient, I wrote him another a month after. He will therefore
have received some sort of satisfaction as to that point long before the period
which you will see he says he should look out for, viz: that
of a letter's reaching him from me in answer to this list of his, which
letter ex majori cautelâ I am now writing. He acknowledges
the receipt of your two letters: the last he had received from
us was one of mine written from Thorpe the 21 Octr:
The Bell-man is ringing, & I must put a speedy period to
this letter – Sam's you may look for in a post or two.
The real profit of the mine which he says he thinks he could get
the farming of he estimates at £12,000 a year after the two
first years, which two first years would not be altogether without
their profit. Bolton and Watt from where he says he
had the idea of the terms, are getting I have been told at the
rate of 60,000£ a year by the Watt's improvement on the
Steam-Engine. What I now send is all that remains of Sam's last letter but one.
My best respects wait upon my mother. What news from Scotland.
I may possibly make use of the pack to "Patrick Barclay
Esqr: Bath" in my next. – Your's dutifully & affectionately
Jeremy Bentham
Wolsey is very well & goes about with a stick
by himself. I have seen him several times.
He has let the house built in the room of that you were in; I have as another hand by.
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