Letters of Jeremy Bentham to Leicester Stanhope (5th Earl of Harrington)

Item author: Jeremy Bentham
Item date: 1823-31
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 22,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2004
Item institution: University College London
Town/City: London

This collection of 35 letters by Bentham had been assumed to be lost. Leicester Stanhope was one of his closest friends and most trusted collaborators during the last decade of Bentham's life. The letters cover a wide rnage of subjects, including the Greek war of Independence, the reform of government in British India and the creation of the "Constitutional Code".

Item Provenance
By descent in Stanhope family; private collection, Scotland; John Wilson Manuscripts Ltd.