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Box 110 contains material pertaining to Bentham's constitutional proposals for Portugal and Greece, as well as a large amount of material collated by Bentham's literary executor, John Bowring.
Bowring was introduced to Bentham by their mutual friend, Edward Blaquiere, in 1820. Bentham found Bowring a willing disciple, and according to Bowring - who was not always entirely trustworthy - the aged Bentham died in his arms on 6 June 1832. Bowring was left almost all of Bentham's manuscripts along with funds to see through to publication an edition of Bentham's works. Most of the editing was carried out by others, but the edition was published between 1838 and 1843 in eleven volumes. Though a remarkable achievement, this edition is inadequate for modern scholarship: it is incomplete, omitting works published in Bentham's lifetime as well as unpublished texts which exist in manuscript. The Bowring edition is now being superseded by the new Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, produced by UCL's Bentham Project.
Bowring was a polyglot, and produced a series of works on European poetry and folk song, and these manuscripts contain notes on Modern Greek poetry, Polish, Spanish and Swiss literature, as well as Hungarian folk songs. This box also contains, in Bowring's hand, the 1825 Report of the London Greek Committee, founded two years earlier to support the Greeks in their uprising against the Ottoman occupation. Much of the money raised was squandered and many of the public figures involved, Bowring especially, were forced to defend themselves against accusations of having profited through the Committee's fundraising activities.
The material is divided as follows:
Untranscribed: 51
In Progress: 27
Ready For Review: 0
Completed: 593
Total: 671
0Completed: 593(88.38%)671
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