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Autograph fragment from Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham : place not specified, [1840?].

BIB_ID
397187
Accession number
MA 13429
Creator
Bowring, John, 1792-1872.
Display Date
[1840?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 12.5 x 20 cm
Notes
Fragment of Bowring's "Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Half-sheet manuscript fragment of his biographical essay on the life of Jeremy Bentham, describing the career of Bentham's father, published in Tait's Edinburgh magazine for 1840 (vol. VII, p. 21-25), and subsequently republished in editions of Bentham's collected Works, in 1842 and 1843.