Documentation SN 4077 (Second Edition)

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The aim of the Bentham Project is to produce a new scholarly edition of the works and correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the influential jurist, philosopher, and social scientist, whom A.J.P. Taylor described as ‘the most formidable reasoner who ever applied his gifts to the practical questions of administration and politics’. The case for producing a new edition of Bentham’s works rests partly on the importance of his thought, and partly in the inadequate and incomplete fashion in which his works were previously published. His writings are remarkable for their range, originality and influence. He was one of the greatest reformers, perhaps the greatest, in the history of English law. He was a major thinker in the disciplines of legal and political philosophy, ethics, public administration, social policy and economics. He has been recognised, too, as a pioneer in other fields ranging from international law and the birth control movement to motivational psychology and deontic logic. The task of producing the new edition is a daunting one. It involves the exploration of a very substantial body of manuscript material, the principal collections being those in the University College itself, and in the British Library. Since 1968, twenty two volumes of the new Collected Works have been published under the auspices of the Bentham Committee. It is envisaged that when completed the edition will comprise approximately seventy volumes, of which fourteen will be devoted to Bentham’s correspondence. Such an edition will, it is hoped, make available a fuller and more inclusive view of Bentham’s thought and of his contribution to the science of man and society than has been possible hitherto. LISTING This listing provides descriptions of the contents of boxes where at least some of the context described has been transcribed. Note: Material deposited as part of the second edition has been identified by the legend ‘New Deposit’ in brackets and at the end of the file descriptions Box003 Annuity notes, Sinking fund, Political economy, Alarm remedies

Maximum price of corn (New deposit)

Box008 Files 149-192 Colonization Society Proposal, being a proposal for the formation

of a Joint Stock Company by the name of the Colonization Company on an entirely new principle intituled the Vicinity maximizing or dispersion-preventing principle; 1831

Files 192-197 E. Gibbon Wakefield, on the Colonization Society's Plan, 23 Aug. 1831 Box012 Files 5-388 Correspondence - United States of America, Colombia, Peru, Egypt,

Greece, Guatemala; 1817-25 File 68v Foreignor best Files 70v-81v Codification Offer File 82v Codification Universal Box017 Files 50-57 Manual - Colony and Navy - Pitt and Lord Sheffield; [c 1790] Box021 Files 180-212 Greece - Constitution, observations; 1823 Files 213-270 Greece - Principles of legislation as to constitutional law; 1823 Files 271-309 Greece - Brouillon of arrangements meant to be recommended by J.B.

to Greece; 1823 Box023 Files 34-76 J.B. to France against Peers; 1830 Box024 Files 1-18 Bey of Tripoli - Proclamation, Address 1, 2, 4; 1822-23 Files 19-39 J.B. to H. D'Ghies [Tripolitan ambassador] - Travellers for Tripoli [

requirements of a scientific expedition]; 1822 Files 40-60 Tripoli - Facienda by Government; 1822 Files 61-95 Some account of the state of Tripoli; 1822 Files 96-377 Tripoli - security against misrule; 1822 Files 378-392 J.B. to J. Quincy Adams for Tripoli [support of U.S. wanted to reform

government]; 1823 Files 393-538 Tripoli - Correspondence Files 539-540 A letter to James Scarlett … on the Abolition of the Slave Trade,

London, 1822 Files 541-558 Tripoli, Egypt - collectanea; 1822-29 Box025

Files 01-35 International Law, Laws Persons, Law War, Cabinet, Pacification, International Peace, etc (New Deposit)

Files 26-35 [Law] Pacification and emancipation; 1786 Files 36-49 [Law] Colonies and navy - Plan; 1786 Files 56-58 International Law, Laws Persons, Law War, Cabinet, Pacification,

International Peace, etc (New Deposit) Files 50-58 [Law] Cabinet - no secrecy; 1789 Files 59-67 [Law] Pacification and emancipation; Cabinet, no secrecy; of subjects;

Guibert; 1786-89 Files 106-135 International Law, Laws Persons, Law War, Cabinet, Pacification,

International Peace, etc (New Deposit) Box034 Files 1-76 Constitutional Code, First lines - Marginalia; 1815, 1820-27 Files 85-87 Constitutional Code or Codification Proposal - Draughtsman single;

1821 Files 88-92 Constitutional Code - Aptitude, sureties; 1821-22 Files 93-102 Constitutional Code - Junction of interests, how affected, or Sinister

interests, how overpowered; 1822 Files 103-214 Constitutional Code, First lines - Quasi-jury; 1821-23 Files 297-301 Constitutional Code - Sublegislatures: observations of the federative

system; 1824 Box036 Files 1-52 First Lines of a proposed Code; 1821 Files 53-61 Constitutional Code - First Lines - Supreme operative; 1821 Files 62-70 Codification Offer or First Lines - useless places; 1821 Files 71-74 Constitutional Code - Monarchy; 1821 Files 75-100 Constitutional Code - First principles; 1822 Files 101-208 Constitutional Code - Rationale - Supreme operative - 1822 Files 209-215 Constitutional Code - Preface; 1823 Files 275-282 Constitutional Code - Expositive - End in view; 1823 Files 283-291 Constitutional Code - Enactive part - Preface; 1824, 1826, 1827 Box037 Files 4-70 First lines of a proposed code of law for any nation, compleat and

rationalized; 1820-22 Files 71-87 Constitutional Code - III Rationale; 1822 Files 88-99 Constitutional Code - II Expositive; 1822 Files 100-273 Constitutional Code - III Rationale; 1823 Files 369-422 Constitutional Code [fragments]; 1822-27 Box038 Files 13-96 First principles preparatory to Constitutional Code [marginals]; 1822 Files 97-370 Constitutional Code - Marginal contents; 1820-31

Box041 Files 103-203 Securities against misrule; 1822. Box042 Files 130-327 Constitutional Code - Judiciary collectively; 1823-32 Files 328-651 Constitutional Code - Judiciary collectively; 1823-32 Box044 Files 1-5 Parliamentary reform - Rottenness no corruption, or a Defence of

Rotten boroughs by the author of the Defence of Usury [marginal notes]; 1794-95

Files 6-13 Constitutional Code - rudiments, U.S.A.; 1822-23, 1827 Files 14-77 Constitutional Code - Appendix, False securities, Two chambers,

U.S.A.; 1822-24 Box045 Files 422-429 Introductory view of evidence; 1812-23 [Fragments, chiefly

emendations to printed pamphlet above] Files 430-561 Introduction to the Rationale of Evidence, Appendices A, B, C; 1803,

1811-12, 1812 Files 562-739 Introductory View of Evidence; 1811-12 Files 740-747 Evidence, Introductory View - Preface; 1823 Box047 Files 40-215 Evidence - Makeshift, species, forthcomingness, exclusion,

introduction, written pleading, appropriate; 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1808, 1824

Files 216-413 Proof of evidence; 1811-12 Box048 Files 1-78 Evidence - circumstantial - marginalia; 1803-08 Files 79-222 Evidence - circumstantial; 1803-04 Files 241-395 Evidence - makeshift; 1803-05 Box049 Files 1-22 Evidence - non-homologation, Procedure; 1803-04 Files 23-198 Evidence, Procedure - Vices; 1804-08 Files 199-277 Evidence, Procedure - Sources; 1804, 1805 Box058 Files 1-19 Evidence - object; 1803 Files 20-128 Evidence - introduction; 1803-05

Files 129-151 Procedure, Evidence - ends; 1803-05 Files 152-443 Evidence - introduction; 1804-05 Box059 Files 1-127 Evidence - introduction - ends; 1803-05 Files 128-303 Procedure and Evidence - evils, causes; 1803-05 Files 304-385 Procedure, Evidence - basis, enquiry - mode; 1804-05 Files 386-446 Procedure, Evidence - ends (superseded); 1803-04 Box060 Files 14-45 Buenos Aires - collectanea and correspondence; 1818-24 Box074 Files 223-514 Procedure, Evidence B - forthcomingness; 1803, 1804 Box080 Files 1-20 Codification proposal; Books - to whom to be sent; 1815, 1827 Files 23-58 Jeremy Bentham to all people professing liberal opinions; 1821, 1822 Box084 Files 73-191 Codification offer; 1821, 1822 Box 091 Full transcriptions of manuscripts relating to the subject of Scotch

reform (New Deposit) Box 093 Full transcriptions of manuscripts relating to the subject of Scotch

reform (New Deposit) Box096 Files 128-131 [Legislation] - Maupertius [definitions of pain and pleasure; c. 1773] Box101 Files 88-200 Logic - [Chapters] I, II, III, IV, V, VI; 1814, 1827 Files 201-283 Logic - Ch. VII Clearness in discourse; 1811, 1814, 1826 Files 284-384 Logic - Ch. IX Of division; 1811, 1814 Files 385-405 Logic - Ch. X. Of the art of invention; 1814 Files 406-425 Logic - Chrestomathia, or language; 1814, 1815, 1816 Files 426-498 Logic - Art and Science division; 1814, 1815 Files 499-612 Logic, Logique - Livre Ier [in French]; 1827 Box102 Files 1-79 Logic, ontology; 1814, 1821

Files 282-498 Language, Logic, chrestomathia, 1811-31 Files 525-596 Chrestomathia, Language, Grammar; 1815, 1816 Box103 Files 1-528 The book of fallacies; 1810, 1811, 1818, 1819 Box104 Files 1-39 Fallacies - Preface, history of fallacies; 1811, 1819, 1820, 1821 Files 40-72 Fallacies - Generalia, uses of this work; 1809, 1811, 1819 Files 73-91 Fallacies - Generalia; 1809, 1810, 1811 Files 92-357 Fallacies - Ancestor worship, cause and obstacle confused, fallacies of

the arts, Jephtha's vow, opposer general's argument, why most employed by the Ins, utterers, self-trumpeter's argument; 1810-19

Box105 Files 1-121 Fallacies - rudiments [marginal outlines]; 1806, 1807, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1819, 1821 Box106 Files 308-312 J.B.a Ternaux, depute de la Seine [monarchy]; 1822 Files 313-326 Constitutional Code - rule, good, bad; 1822 Files 327-394 Greece - Constitution, J.B.'s observations on particular articles; 1823 Box108 Files 150-152 Political economy - Economy, Appendix - False securities ridiculed;

1822 Box109 Files 189-258 [Parliamentary reform] - British India, Norway, Sweden, Russia,

Finland, Portugal, Spain, France, Haiti, Tripoli, Mexico - collectanea [extracts from Morning Chronicle and Traveller]; 1821, 1822

Box 111 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box112 Files 182-228 [Official aptitude], Constitutional Code - Ch. IX, S.17 Objections 6

and 7; 1822, 1826-28

Box113 Files 1-159 Official aptitude - Economy as to office, aptitude maximizing; 1822 Box114 Files 1-31 [Official aptitude] Economy as to office, aptitude maximized; 1822 Box 125 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box 126 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box127 Files 1-19 [Parliamentary reform] - Constitutional law - Parliament; [c. 1790] Box128 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box129 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box130 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box131 Manuscripts on the subject of Parliamentary Reform: Expression of the

commitment to democracy and the adoption of political radicalism in which near universal suffrage and secret ballots are proposed. A deep

analysis of misrule encompasses political corruption, the patronage system and the delusion and domination of the masses by the ‘ruling few’ and sets out political remedies. (New deposit)

Box139 Files 540-542 Constitutional code, codification offer; 1821 Box146 Files 9-51 [Civil code] - Omnipotence of the supreme power; [c. 1795] Files 52-190 [Anarchical fallacies] - Observations on the Declarations of Rights

presented to the Committee on the Constitution of the National Assembly of France; 1795

Files 234-237 [Anarchical fallacies] - Declaration [of Rights; c. 1796] File 241 Emancipate [your colonies] - II Justice; [c. 1822] Box149 Files 203-211 Auto-icon, View of Hard Labour Bill, Constitutional law [etc. -

fragments]; 1820-22 Box151 Files 7-24 Poor plan - introduction; [c. 1796] Files 102-119 Poor plan - advertisement; 1797 Files 120-170 Poor plan - classes mustered; 1797 Files 171-400 Poor plan - Management, employment, establishment; 1797 Files 401-453 Poor plan - Building; 1796-97 Files 454-472 Poor bill - benefit, conclusion; 1797 Files 473-481 [Poor plan] - Management principles - C. Pr. 8-16; 1797 Box152 Files 1-68 Essays relative to the subject of the Poor Law, I, II [complete]; 1796 Files 69-195 Essays relative to the subject of the Poor Law - Essay III [incomplete

outline]; 1796 Files 196-218 Essays relative to the subject of the Poor Law - Essay III [complete];

1796 Files 219-263 [Poor plan] - Poor - I Effects - Introduction; 1796 Files 264-273 [Poor plan] - Contents, classes mustered; 1797 Files 274-356 Poor plan - Separation and association, official establishment,

pecuniary estimates, apprentices, objection; 1797 Files 357-364 [Poor plan] - Management rules, B.Pr. 3,4,5; [1797] Files 365-410 Poor View - projects various; 1799 Files 411-564 Poor View - systems compared; 1799 Box153 Files 1-54 Essays on The Subject of the Poor Laws - I, II, III [complete]; 1796 Files 55-77 Essays on the subject of the Poor Laws - Essay II; 1796

Files 78-141 Poor plan - pauper education; 1796 Files 142-201 Pr. [Pauper] Management - rules; 1796 Files 202-213 [Poor plan] - Building plan; 1796 Files 214-249 [Poor plan] - Independent poor; 1796 Files 250-265 Poor relief - pauper comforts; 1797 Files 266-351 Poor plan - company, not government - advantages; 1797 Files 352-478 Poor plan - observations on the poor bill; 1796-97 Files 479-532 [Poor plan] - Poor law commission [collectanea, chiefly Chadwick's,

some written on Bentham's paper; c. 1831-38] Box154 Files 1-11 [Poor] View - voluntary contribution, establishments incompetent;

1796 Files 12-26 [Poor plan] - Plan of a company for the maintenance of the concerns of

the poor all over England [complete]; 1797 Files 27-66 Poor plan - Observations; 1797 Files 67-83 Poor plan - contents [marginals]; 1797 Files 84-104 Poor plan - buildings; 1797 Files 105-123 Poor plan - Book II, Ch. 7 Diet; 1797 Files 124-135 Poor plan - classes mustered; 1797 Files 136-277 Poor plan - frugality assisted, mendicity extirpated, habitual

depredation extirpated; 1797 Files 278-406 Poor plan - employment; 1797 Files 407-524 Poor plan - numbers; 1797 Files 525-545 Poor plan - estimate; 1797 Files 546-584 Poor plan - prospect of success; 1797 Box158 Files 335-338 Constitutional code - rationale [marginals]; 1822 Files 339-351 Economy, [Official] Aptitude - I Moral [marginals]; 1822 Box160 Files 6-30 [Official economy] - Principles of official economy - Consult for

Constitutional code; 1818 Files 35-36 Economy - pay-reduction; 1822 Files 37-92 Constitutional code - Thoughts on economy as applied to office; 1822 Files 93-116 Economy as to office - II Rulers interested contra; 1822 File 148 First lines - Anti-constitutional arrangement - Instruments of misrule

[marginals]; 1821 Files 149-231 First lines - Distributive law [etc.]; 1821 Files 237-239 Constitutional code - rationale - introduction; 1820, 1822 Files 240-311 Constitutional code- securities for moral aptitude; 1822 Files 312-338 Constitutional code - short rationale; 1823, 1824, 1825 Files 339-474 Constitutional code - rationale - securities for moral aptitude; 1821,

1822, 1823, 1826 Box162

Files 1-81 Emancipation Spanish - Summary of a work, intituled 'Emancipate

your colonies, in a letter from Philo-Hispanus to the Spanish people'; 1820

Files 82-226 Emancipation Spanish - superseded matter; 1820 Files 227-257 Rid yourselves of ultramaria - Preliminary distinctions and

explanations; 1820, 1821 Box164 Files 69-151 Emancipation Spanish - Introduction; 1820 Files 152-269 Emancipation Spanish - Corruptive influence; 1820 Box166 Files 1-26 To Mirabeau, Short view of economy for the use of the French nation;

1789 Files 291-472 Evidence - Tables containing titles of chapters and sections [marginal

contents]; 1803-12 Box167 Files 48-115 Rid yourselves of ultramaria - Part I, Letters 5-9; 1820-22 Files 116-189 Rid yourselves of ultramaria - Part I, Letters 10-13; 1820-22 Files 190-239 Rid yourselves of ultramaria - Part II, Letters 11-17; 1820-22 Files 240-288 Rid yourselves of ultramaria - Part II, Letter 27; 1820-21 Box170 Files 43-59 [France] - Considerations d'un anglais sur le composition des Etats

generaux - Constitution, representation, Necker [marginals]; 1788-93 Files 134-172 [France] - National assembly and King [Constitution]; [1788] Files 173-182 Constitutional law heads [marginals]; 1793, 1795 Files 183-187 Influence - contents; Essay on corruption; the Englishman's protest

against corruption [marginals; c. 1795] Box 172 Files 1-151 Emancipation Spanish; 1820 Files 152-432 Rid yourselves of ultramaria; 1820-22 Files 433-450 Rid yourselves of ultramaria - appendix?; 1820 EXPLANATION OF FILE NAMES The names of directories and files are derived from the way in which the manuscript sheets are catalogued in the library of University College London (Manuscripts and Rare Books Rooms).

The directory name e.g. ‘box151’ refers to the number of the box in which manuscript sheets concerning writings on medicine and poor relief are kept. All transcripts from this box are in this directory. The transcripts deposited in the archive represent the complete contents of some boxes, substantial proportions of others, and only small fragments of other boxes. The file name e.g. ‘151-005’ refers to the box number and then to the number of an individual sheet of manuscript; the first to be transcribed onto that file. Typically, a file contains transcripts of five to ten sheets of manuscript; some contain a greater number and others, the transcript of a single sheet. The list of file names are attached copies of relevant passages from the Taylor Milne catalogue referred to below, which will help identify the contents of the files. The box numbers are in Roman numerals in the catalogue. Information about the UCL manuscripts are to be found in: A Taylor Milne, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham in the Library of University College London (2nd ed. 1962), and Douglas Long, The Manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham: a chronological index to the collection in the Library of University College London (London, 1981).