The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham

Author(s)

• Bentham, Jeremy
• Burns, J. H. (James Henderson)
• Sprigge, Timothy L. S.
• Christie, Ian R.
• Milne, Alexander Taylor
• Dinwiddy, J. R. (John Rowland)
• Conway, Stephen
• Fuller, Catherine
• O'Sullivan, Luke

Bibliographic Information

The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham

edited by Timothy L.S. Sprigge

（The collected works of Jeremy Bentham, Correspondence）

Athlone Press, 1968-

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5
• v. 6
• v. 7
• v. 8
• v. 9
• v. 10
• v. 11
• v. 12

Note

Contents: v. 1. 1752-76 -- v. 2. 1777-80 -- v. 3. January 1781 to October 1788 -- v. 4. October 1788 to December 1793 -- v. 5. January 1794 to December 1797 -- v. 6. January 1798 to December 1801 -- v. 7. January 1802 to December 1808 -- v. 8. January 1809 to December 1816 -- v. 9. January 1817 to June 1820 -- v. 10. July 1820 to December 1821 -- v. 11. January 1822 to June 1824 -- v. 12. July 1824 to June 1828

Vol. 3 edited by Ian R. Christie; v. 4-5 edited by Alexander Taylor Milne; v. 6-7 edited by J.R. Dinwiddy; v. 8-10 edited by Stephen Conway; v. 11 edited by Catherine Fuller; v. 12 edited by Luke O'Sullivan and Catherine Fuller

Publisher changes to Clarendon Press

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 11 ISBN 9780198208662

Description

This eleventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence contains nearly three hundred letters, and covers the period from January 1822 to June 1824. The letters, most of which have never before been published, have been collected from archives, private and official, as far afield as Athens and Bogota, as well as from the collections of Bentham Papers at University College London and the British Library. By the early 1820s Bentham had acquired an international reputation, and corresponded with leading figures in Europe, the United States of America, and many of the newly independent states of Central and South America. His correspondents included such notable figures as Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of South America; Jean Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti; Jose da Silva Carvalho, Minister of Justice in Portugal; Etienne Dumont, Bentham's Genevan editor; Bernardino Rivadavia, first President of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata; Jean Baptiste Say, the economist; and members of the provisional government of Greece. Bentham also corresponded with numerous public figures and personal friends in Britain, including Edward Blaquiere, James Silk Buckingham, Richard Carlile, John Cartwright, Rowland and Matthew Davenport Hill, James Mill, Samuel Parr, Francis Place, Leicester Stanhope, and Frances Wright. As well as covering such matters as the launch of the Westminster Review, and his first plan for the Auto-Icon, the volume testifies to the growing importance to Bentham of his writings on codification. Having received news that the Portuguese Cortes had accepted his offer to draw up a complete code of laws, he began to draft material for his Constitutional Code. He became involved in promoting constitutional reform in Tripoli and Greece, and was extensively involved in the negotiations surrounding the Greek Loan raised in London in 1824.

Volume

v. 6 ISBN 9780198226130

Description

Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is concerned with his persistent but eventually unsuccessful efforts to secure the implementation of his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters also throw light on his work in other fields, especially public finance and the reform of the police.

Volume

v. 7 ISBN 9780198226147

Description

This is the seventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence, and nearly three-quarters of the letters included in it have not been published before. In 1802 Bentham started to acquire an international reputation through the publication of his Traites de legislation civile et penale. The correspondence contains information about the numerous last-minute revisions which Bentham suggested, about early reactions to the work, and about its translation into Russian. When, in 1802 - 3, Bentham failed in his attempt to get his Panopticon penitentiary project implemented by the government, he turned his attention to adjective law, writing extensively about evidence and procedure, and in 1808 he published a substantial pamphlet on the reform of the Scottish judicature. Exchanges of letters with Sir Samuel Romilly, Francis Horner and others throw some light on the composition of these works and also illuminate aspects of his personal life: his relationships with his brother Samuel, with his Genevan editor Etienne Dumont, with Lord Holland's sister Caroline Fox, to whom he proposed marriage in 1805, and with Aaron Burr, adventurer and former vice-president of the United States, who formed a close friendship with him in 1808.

Volume

v. 8 ISBN 9780198226154

Description

This is the eighth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly three-quarters of the letters included in this eighth volume of Correspondence have not been previously published. During the years covered by this volume, Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary scheme was finally rejected by the government; and his efforts to secure its implementation, and then to gain adequate compensation, form a major and recurring theme. But the letters do much more than complete the Panopticon saga. They give an insight into Bentham's relations with his editors and followers Etienne Dumont and James Mill, and provide information on the writing, editing, and in some cases, printing and publishing of works on law, politics, religion, and education. Just as important is the clear impression the correspondence gives of his contacts, especially with the legal and political reformers of the day. Prior to these new volumes, the only edition of Bentham's works was a poorly edited and incomplete one brought out within a decade or so of his death.

Volume

v. 9 ISBN 9780198226161

Description

These letters - the vast majority of which have never been published before - illustrate many aspects of Bentham's public and private life. The composition, editing, printing, publishing, and reception of several of his writings are discussed, while the correspondence with his secretary and protege John Herbert Koe gives a unique insight into Bentham's working methods. The proposed Chrestomathic School is the subject of many of the letters of 1820, though even in that year Bentham's involvement in the world of radical politics emerges clearly. The volume also testifies to his burgeoning international reputation, and to his interest in reform in North and South America, Russia, Spain, France, and Geneva.

Table of Contents

• List of letters in Volume 9
• Introduction: The letters
• Outline of Bentham's life, January 1817 to June 1820
• Key to symbols and abbreviations
• The correspondence - January 1817 to June 1820
• Index

Volume

v. 10 ISBN 9780198226178

Description

This is the tenth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. The great majority of the letters have never before been published. They illustrate the composition, editing, publication, and reception of several of his works. The volume reveals Bentham's attempts to influence developments in France, the USA, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and South America. Despite Bentham's importance as jurist, philosopher, and social scientist, and leader of the Utilitarian reformers, the only previous edition of his works was a poorly edited and incomplete one brought out within a decade or so of his death. This new critical edition of his works and correspondence is being prepared by the Bentham Committee of University College London.

Volume

v. 12 ISBN 9780199278305

Description

This twelfth volume of Correspondence contains authoritative and fully annotated texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between July 1824 and June 1828. The 301 letters, most of which have never before been published, have been collected from archives, public and private, in Britain, the United States of America, Switzerland, France, Japan, and elsewhere, as well as from the major collections of Bentham Papers at University College London Library and the British Library. In mid-1824 Bentham was still preoccupied with the Greek struggle for independence against Turkey, though his active involvement waned as he became disenchanted with the behaviour of the deputies sent to London by the Greek National Assembly. His international reputation was reflected in his continuing contact with Simon Bolivar and Bernardino Rivadavia in South America, and with John Quincy Adams, John Neal, Henry Wheaton, and others in the United States, and his forging of new contacts in Guatemala, India, and Egypt. In the autumn of 1825 he visited France, where he stayed with Jean Baptiste Say and La Fayette, and was feted by the French liberals. Bentham made considerable progress drafting material for his pannomion, or complete code of laws, and in particular for his Constitutional and Procedure Codes, while John Stuart Mill edited the massive Rationale of Judicial Evidence. Bentham became increasingly active in the cause of law reform, and exchanged a series of letters on the subject with Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, and Henry Brougham. He maintained his friendships with John and Sarah Austin, George and Harriet Grote, James and John Stuart Mill, John Bowring, Joseph Hume, Francis Burdett, Francis Place, and Joseph Parkes, re-established contact with the third Marquis of Lansdowne, son of his old friend the first Marquis, and made new acquaintances in James Humphreys, Sutton Sharpe, and Albany Fonblanque.

Table of Contents

• List of Letters in Volume 12
• Introduction
• Key to symbols and Abbreviations
• The Correspondence
• Index

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780485132038

Description

Jeremy Bentham was a major figure in the history of ideas, law, politics, and social policy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These volumes represent the definitive collection of his works and correspondence which is being prepared under the auspices of the Bentham Committee. Among his correspondents are the law reformer Samuel Romilly, the former prime minister Lord Lansdowne, and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780485132045

Description

Jeremy Bentham was a major figure in the history of ideas, law, politics, and social policy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These volumes represent the definitive collection of his works and correspondence which is being prepared under the auspices of the Bentham Committee. Among his correspondents are the law reformer Samuel Romilly, the former prime minister Lord Lansdowne, and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780485132052

Description

Jeremy Bentham was a major figure in the history of ideas, law, politics, and social policy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These volumes represent the definitive collection of his works and correspondence which is being prepared under the auspices of the Bentham Committee. Among his correspondents are the law reformer Samuel Romilly, the former prime minister Lord Lansdowne, and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

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Details

• NCID: BA00119743
• ISBN:
  • 048513201X
  • 0485132028
  • 0485132036
  • 0485132044
  • 0485132052
  • 0198226136
  • 0198226144
  • 0198226152
  • 0198226160
  • 0198226179
  • 9780198208662
  • 019927830X
• LCCN: 68084119
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 133.4
  • LCC : B1574.B34
  • DC : 192
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc
  • FREE : Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00119787