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1822 March
Jeremy Bentham to Toribio Nugnez

March 1822

My dear Nunez

Since I despatched my last a translation of your letter has
been now read to me. for in successive Tokens of
approbation such as your's & coming from a man such as you could
not but be gratifying to me, to a degree more easily conceived than
expressed. Everybody who has seen it, this letter of your's (in original or translation, numbers have seen it) is delighted with it. In translation done with scrupulous fidelity & well done by a female friend. I shall send it to the Monthly Magazine, the most useful of our monthly periodicals. I make no doubt of the editor's being glad of it.

My dear Nuñez,
Since I despatched my last, a translation of your
letter has been read to me. Tokens of approbation such as your's & coming
from a man such as you could not but be gratifying to me, to a degree
more easily conceived than expressed. Everybody who has seen it, this letter
of your's (& in original or translation, numbers have seen it) is delighted
with it. In translation done with scrupulous fidelity & well done by a female
friend. I shall send it to the Monthly Magazine, the most useful
of our monthly periodicals. I make no doubt of the editor's being glad of it.

You speak of the Inconsistencies in Dumont inconsistencies as having been found by
you in my works by Dumont. Be they whatever they may
I have no recollection of any such thing. Erroneous views
yes, these I have a recollection of Views radically erroneous,
I mean in relation to the Constitutional Department of the
field of Legislation. That the errors may in some part of them
have been the work of Dumont seems not altogether improbable: & of course it is to the unhappy Editor & not to the author that
your urbanity & your policy in confederacy would ascribe them.
But what I am sure of, is that in a great part if not in the
whole they must have been mine. The case is – that as the
time of my writing any of the papers from which the work
was made I had not as yet turned my attention to that part of the field.
My conceptions on that ground were of course taken from
the common stock, & the constitution so much loudly & universally
trumpeted & which is so far as an imaginary
discourse without a text to it – a discourse imagined on
each occasion by such individual for his own purpose
can have any possess properties ascribable to it was at any rate
the least had at that time in existence. But after that, proceeding
in my slow manner I at length arrived at the
field of Constitutional Law & in that field lifting up my eyes
by degrees I beheld the really existing Constitution of the
Anglo-American United States flourishing like a green
Bay

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Date_1	1822-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	289	Info in main headings field	jeremy bentham to toribio nunez
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2857, vol. 11	ID Number	4738
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