Past Masters
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Electronic edition. book cover

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Electronic edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-356-2
Language: English
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Detail: Jeremy Bentham by Henry William Pickersgill. Oil on canvas. By permission, National Portrait Gallery, London
These cursed people at Grill's though I called and wrote, and saw the Clerks and received promises and assurances over and over, and sent the things in time, missed the Ship that was to sail this day sennight, by which you will be a fortnight later in receiving the things, than you expected. What the consequences may be the Lord knoweth, but there is no help for it.

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. #323, To Samuel Bentham, 30 August-4 September, 1779

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contains Bentham's published and unpublished correspondence from the definitive and ongoing Bentham Project (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project).


Bentham, Jeremy. The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Edited by Timothy L. S. Sprigge. London: Athlone Press, 1968-1981; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984-.

  • Vol. 1: 1752-76. Edited by Timothy L. S. Sprigge. Oxford: London: The Athlone Press, 1968.
  • Vol. 2: 1777-80. Edited by Timothy L. S. Sprigge. London: The Athlone Press, 1968.
  • Vol. 3: January 1781 to October 1788. Edited by Ian R. Christie. London: The Athlone Press, 1971.
  • Vol. 4: October 1788 to December 1793. Edited by Alexander Taylor Milne. London: The Athlone Press, 1981.
  • Vol. 5: January 1794 to December 1797. Edited by Alexander Taylor Milne. London: The Athlone Press, 1981.
  • Vol. 6: January 1798 to December 1801. Edited by J. R. Dinwiddy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
  • Vol. 7: January 1802 to December 1808. Edited by J. R. Dinwiddy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  • Vol. 8: January 1809 to December 1816. Edited by Stephen Conway. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  • Vol. 9: January 1817 to June 1820. Edited by Stephen Conway. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
  • Vol. 10: July 1820 to December 1821. Edited by Stephen Conway. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Notes

Volume 11 has now been published and volumes 12 and 13 are in preparation at the Bentham Project. These three volumes will be included in the database when all become available.

The Bottom Line: Past Masters is an essential online resource for its target audience, upper-level undergraduates and scholarly researchers. Not only does it make key philosophical works accessible on users’ desktops 24/7, but it also provides in-text citations and searchable text. In addition, à la carte database customization makes it financially accessible not only to large universities and research libraries but also to smaller academic institutions and medium to large public libraries, for which it is recommended highly.

—Christopher Holly
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