Box 12 contains Bentham's suggestion for a legal code in Venezuela and lots of correspondence from South America, Greece and the United States.

Detailed contents of this box are as follows:

• Folios 1 to 4: Venezuela - Caracas. Necessity of an all-comprehensive Code [c. 1810]
• Folios 5 to 388: Correspondence - United States of America, Colombia, Peru, Egypt, Greece, Guatemala [c. 1817-25]

Folios from box 12 which have already been partially or fully trancribed are listed under the progress bar below.

Progress: Transcription begun