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that it will have with the public, is a merit that is lost upon me: who have
now been for so many years poring over the subject and as you know have fallen in almost every
particular into the same train of thinking.

Not having to let any thing (you know my severity to myself, and my affection
to you which makes me treat you as I would myself) not having I say, to
set my , such as it is, upon any thing in the success of which I was so
much interested, that fell short of the model of perfection I could make to myself,
this is what I have done. The shortest way of maki letting you
know how I would have it, in any passage, I thought would be to endeavour
to make it as I would have it myself. I had no notion at first of going
on regularly: but I was drawn in insensibly and have now written in quantity half
or two thirds per night I know (or more) as much as yours amounts to.
In short, I have fleshed myself , as it were in the game, and have taken a fancy
to the spirit. In consequence of this the following proposals have come in my mind
to make to you: you shall see what I have done, and then determine.
Take what I have done, if you happen to approve of it more than of your
own, go on with it upon that plan, consider the whole as your own, most
heartily will you be welcome: or else 2dly Let me go on with it, under your
inspection, & with your corrections, and let the profit or loss be equally divided
or 3dly if you approve of neither of these, I believe I shall be tempted to
go on with it on my own account, keeping it back half a year if you
think that enough, that it may not hurt yours its parent to which I will have been so
much indebted. Think not that if I were to execute the remainder, the half of
the profit and of the reputation if there is any would be more than in shortness
is your due: it would have been just as impossible for me to have done what I
have done without the encouragement and assistance I have had from you as
for you to have done it. In such case, if to any body, it must be spoken
of as our joint concern.

This I have written upon a sudden impulse, in the midst of my pushes at our
common adversary to between the hours of 12 and 1/2 after 1. the subject-matter
turned in my thoughts at intervals, for these 4 or 5 days. In the midst of it was
brought me another letter. I have not opened it: nor will I open it till I have
despatched this. I am afraid to open it. I am afraid to find I have injured you:
I am afraid to find I have not. And yet it is in itself but a small matter,
my espressions. Caution made to look like threats: many other things very harsh, for otherwise than is , because I knew not how to
soften them. Believe me if there is any thing in it inconsistent with the sincerest love and esteem for you, it is no true picture of my mind.




Identifier: | JB/537/323/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.

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1774-??-??

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323

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Correspondence

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Penner

Jeremy Bentham

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