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Dear Papa I hope you will excuse my
Dear Papa

I hope you will excuse my having sent you but 15

pages of my Translation instead of 20 I intended to have sent you,

having met with some hard passages which made me lose a good deal

of time, and time is precious with me whatever you may think, as

I have no time at all in the Morning except Thursday for this

business and but little in the afternoon on Teusdays and Fridays: I

have 36 pages left to do which I hope to get done next week as I shall

have a great deal more time than I have had yet, on account of an Examination of the Scholars which lasts Monday Tuesday and Wednesday which exempts us from the lectures and disputations which

otherwise we must attend on those days except the Night-lectures w ch

I believe we must attend notwithstanding. These Examinations are when

one of the Scholars the Senior is made Taberdar, on which occasion he and the

rest are locked into the hall from 9 in the Morning till dinner,

and from dinnertime to prayertime, which time they are employed

in doing Themes &c and while they are in the hall there are

no Lectures that the Scholars may not lose the benefit of them

I hope you received the things that I sent you safe: if you

would bet so kind as to favour me with a line it would much oblige

Your dutifull and

obedient Son

J. Bentham.

Sunday Dec r 6 th 1761.
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