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Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 6 items
- Title
- Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 6 items, 1784-ca. 1828
- Author
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 6 items
- Summary
- · Holograph manuscript, 1 p. : (P'ANA 0008) ; of undetermined subject matter, with pencil and ink annotations and strike-throughs. The page was mailed from Sir John Bowring to Thomas Love Peacock on 5 May 1828.
- · To Sir Francis Burdett, politician : 1 autograph letter unsigned (draft) : 4 Mar 1826 : (MISC 4141) : from Q[ueen] S[quare] P[lace] : begins, "Thanks for your answer just received. As to the new future prison or any particular new prison having no hope I might as well have no wish as to the adoption of plan of mine except as to the architectural inspection principle." The letter was copied and sent to Burdett on 5 Mar 1826; the letter sent is held by the Bodleian Library (MS. Eng. Lett. d. 97, fos. 20-1), and is published in The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, v. 12, p. 203-204.
- · To Samuel Cartwright, dentist : 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Mar 1825 : (MISC 3965) : on his dental health. Tipped into grangerized copy of Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age. Shelved with bound manuscript material under "Hazlitt."
- · To Mr. [Thomas] Evans, bookseller : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Sep 1784 : (MISC 2279) : begins, "I hope you have by this time been paid ..."
- · To Francis Place, radical reformer : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Feb 1821 : (MISC 4026) : regarding an inquiry concerning Thomas Law, the brother of Lord Ellenborough.
- · To "Dear Madam" : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Nov [no year] : (MISC 4023) 25d : begins, "I sent yesterday to request Mrs. Mathew's assistance for the day ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album.
- Subjects
- Philosophers > Great Britain > 18th century > Correspondence
- Law, Thomas, 1756-1834
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 > Correspondence
- Philosophers > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
- Social reformers > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence
- Social reformers > Great Britain > 18th century > Correspondence
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and reformer.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 76698683
- Author
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
- Title
- Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 6 items, 1784-ca. 1828
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and reformer.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bowring, John, 1792-1872, addressee.Cartwright, Samuel, 1789-1864, addressee.Evans, Thomas, 1739-1803, addressee.Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866, addressee.Place, Francis, 1771-1854, addressee.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS