Autograph letters, signed, to Jeremy Bentham
- Date:
- 1823-1830
- Reference:
- MS.7452/1-4
- 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
From:
1. The educationalist Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838), 1805.
2. The composer Thomas Busby (1755-1838), 1823.
3. The orientalist John Borthwick Gilchrist (1759-1841), enclosing a newspaper advertisement describing Gilchrist's plan for a National Philological Society upholding the priciple of "Sterling English [being] preferable to the French or any other language", 1823.
4. The landscape gardener and editor of the Gentleman's Magazine J.C. Loudon (1783-1843), concerning his pamphlet on "Politics for the People", 1830.
Publication/Creation
1823-1830
Physical description
4 items
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.