Dear Papa

I received your letter that you sent me on Monday, and finding

that you did not approve of my going home till Wednesday, I was entirely indifferent about it, as it was the same to me whither I went a week

sooner or later: but as Wheatly seem'd desirous of having my Company, I could

not help telling him that I would ask your leave to go that day, not thinking that you would have any objection to it.— I have been to wait on M r Lee, and was received very obligingly. M rs Bentham has been for some time

at Heddington about two Mills with her little boy for the recovery

of his health; for he has been very ill. I have taken a place in Bew's

Machine that inns at the Bull in Holborn and gets there by a little

after 5. as I shall see you so soon, I have nothing more to add but my

duty to you and my Grandmama and love to dear Sammy, and that I

am

Your dutiful and

affectionate Son

J. Bentham.

Queen's Coll. Dec r 21 1761.