Autograph verses by Jeremy Bentham

Date:
1777
Reference:
MS.7452/6
Part of:
Bentham, Jeremy, (1748-1832), Utilitarian thinker, legal reformer and penologist, and his brother Samuel Bentham (later Sir Samuel) (1757-1831), naval architect
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Description

7 "charades", each in a four-line stanza, the answers ranging from abstract qualities such as "pleasure" to Bentham's own surname.

The date 1777 has been ascribed to this item by an endorsement in a different hand.

Publication/Creation

1777

Physical description

1 item

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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