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Add MSS 33540 is a volume from the British Library’s Bentham Papers collection, and contains correspondence to and from Jeremy Bentham, as well as to and from members of Bentham’s family. The material in this volume covers the period from January 1784 until late 1788. During this period, Jeremy travelled to Russia to visit his brother, Samuel, whom he had not seen for the best part of six years. Much of the correspondence encompasses letters from Jeremy to his father, Jeremiah, about to the long and eventful voyage overland to Crimea. Bentham stayed there for around twenty months, working on his penal and civil codes, and wrote his ‘’Defence of Usury’’ in early 1787.
It was also during this time that Jeremy became taken with Samuel’s ‘inspection house’ plan, a circular building with an observation platform at the centre, which would allow for the supervision of skilled and unskilled workers. This idea formed the basis of Jeremy’s panopticon prison scheme, an endeavour which would consume much of the next decade of his life, and during 1786 he wrote a series of letters which became his 1791 work, ‘’Panopticon; or, the Inspection-House’’.
Jeremy returned to England in February 1788, where he became engrossed in reports of the French Revolution, and began work on his ‘’Essay on Political Tactics’’. 1788 also saw Bentham’s first collaboration with the Genevan Étienne Dumont, whose French translations and recensions helped to give Bentham’s works a global audience.
Below is an outline of to whom some of the letters are to and from:
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 2,024 total.
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