Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Renowned English advocate for the utilitarianism movement (1748–1832). Uncommon LS, one page both sides, 4 x 6.5. Bentham writes from Queen Square Place, penning the date, “Sunday, 20 Sept. 1823, 10 P. M.,” and communicates a message to Matthew Davenport Hill concerning Colonel Stanhope’s upcoming journey to the Continent, in part: “Unfortunately Col. Stanhope’s departure is fixed for Thursday. I have just dispatched to him a messenger with a letter asking him for his proposed…route with places & days to the end that if per adventure anything can be got up in time it may overtake him as early as possible by the post, at any rate before he has left the last last place of his intended visits in German: item, some idea of the quantity of matter it would be agreeable to him to see the prospectus contain. I suppose you know that he paid t’other day a visit to Hazelwood. Mr. Buckingham was to leave Town with his boy for that place yesterday even so he said to be on Friday,” with Bentham adding the post script, “Have the goodness to return me the Colonel’s letter when done with, for I shall have need to refer to it.” Show-through from writing on the reverse, some light brushing to the text, mirroring of ink on the blank second integral page, and a block of rubbing on the reverse of the same page, otherwise fine condition. Matthews ran the ‘Hill Top’ school established by his father, Thomas Wright Hill, at Hazelwood. He was implementing a new sort of discipline within the school, which entailed turning over operating responsibilities to the students. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, a friend of Bentham, was also interested in this new structure of higher education, and at the time of this letter, was traveling to Greece in search of students to send to the school. A fantastic letter concerning true educational revolutionaries, and the only Bentham we’ve ever offered!.
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