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The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief.

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'These volumes provide significant additions to our understanding of Bentham's work in the first half of his life up to 1797. The insights they offer into Bentham's activities, ideas and method cast light on his philosophical and political positions in a seminal period in British and European history.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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Alexander Taylor (Jock) Milne (1906-94), scholar and historian, was Secretary and Librarian of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. John R. Dinwiddy (1939-90), historian, was educated at New College, Oxford, before being appointed successively as Lecturer 1969-78, Senior Lecturer 1978-83, Reader 1983-9, and Professor 1989-90 in the Department of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London. In 1977 he was appointed as second General Editor of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, a post he held jointly with Professor Burns until the following year, and then solely until 1983. In this role, he saw the fourth and fifth volumes of Bentham's Correspondence through the press.

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