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Preface to Letters to Ld Pelham

9 June 1803

Preface

In preparing the copies of the first of these tracts for operation of/distribution the distributing
them about to be made of among the high personages revered persons to whom the circular letter is addressed,
the blanks secured/struck in presented themselves to me as threatening to pregnant with to convey an
impression as unfavourable to the design/purpose as it would have been unsuitable
to the real complexion of the contents pages. Blanks said
I to myself are the resource of the anonymous libeller: of a man
whom either fear or shame prevents from speaking out without disguise. To obviate
that conception impression, I annexed to each copy a hasty line in
manuscript, noticing these gaps, and undertaking to account for them.
Immaterial as the fulfillment of this promise engagement as to the parties to
whom it was thus addressed made, it is far from being so to the individual
by whom it was contracted.

The grounds of the observation
were in the preceding part of
the narrative.

The mystery is soon unfolded The origin of the blanks is extremely simple. The description
which composes from the matter of the ensuing pages presented themselves in the
course of the narrative spoken of at the outset. Where The observations
contained in the passages in which the blanks occurr were grounded
in facts that in the course of the narrative had been already stated: but
these facts no statement being included in the present publication, the structures observations
would have being thus left destitute of their support, would to in all appearances
have been groundless not to say unintelligible. The effect
of names would have been to distract the attention and created a diversion
not favourable to the present purpose. A fitter course The fittest course would
have been to have written the passages anew, but for that operation at any time not a pleasant one in the
then apparent urgency apparently urgent portions of the business, there was not time.

Identifier: | JB/116/468/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	468	Info in main headings field	preface to letters to ld pelham
Image	001	Titles	preface
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38001
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