Guide to the Papers of Jeremy Bentham (as filmed by the AJCP)
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Created: 2018
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Volume V, August 1790 - 25 September 1794 (File Add MS 33541)
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Sir John Parnell to Lord Lansdown, 6 August 1790 (Item f. 143)
Praises Bentham essay on penitentiary houses.
Bentham to Sir John Parnell, 2 September 1790 (Item ff. 160-61)
Publication of essay; seeks publications; advantages of penitentiary over transportation.
Sir John Parnell to Bentham, 3 September 1790 (Item ff. 164-65)
Adoption of penitentiary scheme in Ireland.
Bentham to [unknown], 23 January 1791 (Item ff. 201-7)
Sends proposal for construction of penitentiary house (panoptic); superiority of scheme to convict hulks.
Bentham to E. Nepean, 22 February 1791 (Item ff. 225-27)
Appeals against sentence of transportation for Chapman; requests engravings of panopticon be sent to Ireland.
E. Nepean to Bentham, 28 February 1791 (Item f. 229)
Parcels for Ireland; removal of Chapman from hulks.
R.P. Carew to Bentham, 9 May 1791 (Item f. 249)
Bentham's proposals mentioned to W. Pitt; construction of penitentiary in Edinburgh by R. Adam.
Bentham to Sir Charles Bunbury, 10 February 1792 (Item f. 315)
Modification of penitentiary proposal; cheapness compared with convict hulks.
Bentham to Sir Charles Bunbury, 30 May 1792 (Item f. 325)
Use of Bentham's name in connection with penitentiary proposal.
Bentham to G. Rose, 30 May 1792 (Item ff. 327-28)
Sir Charles Bunbury; consideration given to Bentham's proposal by Government.
Bentham to F. Burton, 2 July 1792 (Item ff. 332-33)
Government's silence on scheme; alleged connection between H. Dundas and Duncan Campbell.
F. Burton to Bentham, 4 July 1792 (Item f. 336)
Has suggested to Dundas that W. Pitt might consider proposal.
Bentham to G. Rose, 16 July 1792 (Item ff. 347-48)
Dundas' indifference to scheme; Duncan Campbell's corruption.
Bentham to [unknown], 28 September 1792 (Item ff. 365-66)
Dundas' reaction to panopticon proposal; powers of supervisors.
Bentham to Lord Loughborough, 2 February 1793 (Item ff. 381-82)
Panopticon; inactivity of W. Pitt and H. Dundas.
Bentham to E. Nepean, 14 February 1793 (Item ff. 383-84)
Request by convict Chapman to serve in Navy.
Bentham to C. Abbott, 15 April 1794 (Item ff. 510-11)
Difficulties in putting panopticon proposal in statutory form.
Volume VI, 10 April 1795 - 24 February 1798 (File Add MS 33542)
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Sir John Parnell (Dublin) to Bentham, 10 April 1795 (Item f. 41)
Suggestion Lord Camden consult Bentham about employment of convicts sentenced to transportation.
Sir John Parnell to Bentham, 16 April 1795 (Item ff. 45-46)
Bill to be drafted to apply money allocated for transporting convicts to employing them at labour in Ireland.
Sir Charles Bunbury to Bentham, 10 July 1795 (Item f. 82)
Suggests Bentham requisition services of carpenter R. Coates, about to be moved to convict hulks.
Sir Patrick Colquhoun to Bentham, 16 December 1796 (Item ff. 397-98)
Suggests Bentham speak to W. Baldwin at Home Office on employment of less depraved convicts at present sent to Botany Bay.
Volume VII, 20 May 1799 - 30 December 1802 (File Add MS 33543)
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Capt. J. Hunter (Sydney) to Samuel Bentham, 20 May 1799 (Item ff. 36-37)
Congratulations on appointment; Hunter's irksome command; N.S.W. overstocked with worst description of men.
Bentham to [E. Nepean], 17 August 1799 (Item ff. 93-94)
Number of prisoners to be housed in penitentiary compared with number of transportable convicts; believes hulks are to be abandoned.
Duke of Portland to Commissioners of Treasury, 14 October 1799 (Item ff. 143-44)
Penitentiary to be responsible for transportable convicts until embarkation.
Bentham to E. Nepean, 2 July 1800 (Item f. 381)
Conversations with Home Office on N.S.W. and number of convicts to be housed in penitentiary.
Bentham to E. Nepean, 10 September 1800 (Item ff. 411-12)
Possibility of reduction in number of convicts to be housed; complaints by Ordnance Dept. of loss of labour from hulks.
Mrs. Paterson (Sydney) to Mrs. Bentham, 7 October 1800 (Item ff. 423-24)
Fear of Irish uprising in N.S.W.
Bentham to Sir Charles Bunbury, 10 August 1802 (Item ff. 580-81)
D. Collins' account of N.S.W. confirms Bentham's predictions, with promising settlements abandoned, and famine, profligacy, native hostility.
Bentham to E. Dumont, 29 August 1802 (Item ff. 603-6)
Villainy of W. Pitt and Duke of Portland; illegal confinement of convicts in N.S.W.; D. Collins' account and Bentham's pamphlet on N.S.W.; obstructions to Panopticon.
Bentham to C. Abbott, 3 September 1802 (Item ff. 611-18)
Illegalities of N.S.W. Government; Government's long policy of obstructing construction of panopticon.
W. Wilberforce to Bentham, 2 October 1802 (Item f. 631)
Undertakes to pass on information about N.S.W.
Bentham to Sir Charles Bunbury, 3 December 1802 (Item ff. 661-62)
New pamphlet compares panopticon with N.S.W.
S. Perceval to Bentham, [13 December 1802] (Item f. 665)
Bentham's pamphlet on transportation and penitentiary systems; Bill introduced to enable Royal Navy ships to transport convicts.
Volume VIII, 10 January 1803 - 17 September 1812 (File Add MS 33544)
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S. Perceval to Bentham, 10 January 1803 (Item f. 4)
Bentham's second letter to Lord Pelham on N.S.W.
G. Lee to Sir Henry Mildmay, 24 January 1803 (Item ff. 14-15)
Conditions on convict hulk. (extract).
Sir Frederick Eden to Bentham, 27 January 1803 (Item f. 22)
Acknowledges second letter to Lord Pelham; refers to import of timber from N.S.W. in exchange for export of immorality; suggests Bentham read accounts of deportations to Cayman.
Bentham to E. Dumont, 9 February 1803 (Item ff. 30-31)
Conversation with Dr. Parr concerning letters to Lord Pelham; copies of pamphlets to be given to C.J. Fox.
Bentham to Samuel Bentham, 22 February 1803 (Item ff. 41-42)
Meetings with D. Collins; his plans to erect prison in N.S.W.
J. Abercromby to Bentham, 31 March 1811 (Item ff. 501-2)
Meeting of Select Committee on Transportation.
Bentham to Sir Evan Nepean, 21 May 1811 (Item ff. 519-21)
Committee's consideration of convict hulks.
Bentham to J. Abercromby, 27 May 1811 (Item ff. 535-36)
Proceedings of Committee; Sir Charles Bunbury; Sir Evan Nepean.