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
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
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.