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Dear Papa Queen's Coll. Sunday March
Dear Papa

Queen's Coll. Sunday March 15 1761.

I have sent you inclosed 20 pages of my translation; and intend

sending you 40 pages next week which will finish the book de

contempendâ morte which is a great deal longer than any one of

the rest: D r Bentham came to see me in my

Chambers to day and explained to me that part that I have marked

in large brackets which I was forced to paraphrase upon a little as you see,

for in some places as the D r says, the Latin

cannot so cleverly be expressed in English, without some circumlocution:

before the D r explained it to me, I was forced

to leave room to put it in afterward, and go on. I should have

told you that I have been to dine with the D r and M rs Bentham who

sent for me last Sunday sen'night; they were very civil, desired

I would come often, and so forth: and D r Bentham

this time sends his Compliments to you. I received your letter on Sunday

evening,

with Floods inclosed in it; which indeed I think a

very strange one I am going to have an old Schoolfellow to drink Tea

with me by and by who is just entered at Christchurch, and is to have a

studentship given him by D r Bentham. I hope

poor Sammy is better, and you and my Grandmama both well,
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