Bentham, Jeremy, (1748-1832), Utilitarian thinker, legal reformer and penologist, and his brother Samuel Bentham (later Sir Samuel) (1757-1831), naval architect
- Date:
- c.1777-1830
- Reference:
- MS.7452
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Miscellaneous material, chiefly correspondence.
Publication/Creation
c.1777-1830
Physical description
7 items
Acquisition note
Purchased from: Glendining, London, April 1935; either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932.
Biographical note
For biographical details of the Bentham brothers see their entries in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
Further material relating to Samuel Bentham can be found at MS.7397/1..
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.
Ownership note
Formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.
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Location Status Access Closed stores
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Accession number
- accs. 68595 and 69292