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Publication date: 11 April 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/9781800086104

Number of illustrations: 1

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The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13

July 1828 to June 1832

Philip Schofield (Editor),  Philip Schofield (Editor),  Tim Causer (Editor),  Tim Causer (Editor),  Chris Riley (Editor),  Chris Riley (Editor),  Jeremy Bentham (Author),  Jeremy Bentham (Author)

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 contains authoritative and fully annotated texts of all known and publishable letters sent both to and from Bentham between 1 July 1828 and his death on 6 June 1832. In addition to 474 letters, the volume contains three memorandums concerning Bentham’s health shortly before his death, his Last Will and Testament, and extracts from both the Autobiography and the manuscript diaries of Bentham’s nephew George. Of the letters that have been previously published, most are drawn from the edition of The Works of Jeremy Bentham, prepared under the superintendence of Bentham’s literary executor John Bowring. A small number of letters have been reproduced from newspapers and periodicals.

This volume publishes for the first time all the extant correspondence between Bentham and Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Liberator. Other new acquaintances included Charles Sinclair Cullen, barrister and law reformer, and John Tyrrell, the Real Property Commissioner. Throughout the period, Bentham maintained regular contact with old friends and connections, but he also entered into sporadic correspondence with such leading figures in government as the Duke of Wellington, Robert Peel and Henry Brougham. Further afield, Bentham corresponded, amongst others, with the Marquis de La Fayette in France, Edward Livingston in the United States of America and José del Valle in Guatemala.

DOI: 10.14324/9781800086104

Number of illustrations: 1

Publication date: 11 April 2024

PDF ISBN: 9781800086104

EPUB ISBN: 9781800086135

Hardback ISBN: 9781800086128

Paperback ISBN: 9781800086111

Philip Schofield (Editor)

Philip Schofield is Director of the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, UCL, and General Editor of the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.

Philip Schofield (Editor)

Philip Schofield is Director of the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, UCL, and General Editor of the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.

Tim Causer (Editor)

Tim Causer is Principal Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws.

Tim Causer (Editor)

Tim Causer is Principal Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws.

Chris Riley (Editor)

Chris Riley is Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws

Chris Riley (Editor)

Chris Riley is Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws

Jeremy Bentham (Author)

Jeremy Bentham (Author)

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