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Space left in manuscript.

[to]

Word(s) editorially supplied.

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Word(s) torn away.

⟨so⟩

Conjectural restoration of mutilated word.

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Reading doubtful.

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Word(s) proved illegible.

Bowring

The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the superintendence of . . . John Bowring, 11 vols., Edinburgh, 1843.

UC

Bentham papers in the Library of University College London. Roman numerals refer to boxes in which the papers are placed, Arabic to the leaves within each box.

BL Add. MS

British Library Additional Manuscript.

CW

This edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.

1793

'Jeremy Bentham to the National Convention of France.'

1816

Tactique des assemblées législatives, suivie d'un traité des sophismes politiques; Ouvrage extrait des Manuscrits de M. Jérémie Bentham, Jurisconsulte anglois, Par Et. Dumont, Membre du Conseil Représentatif du Canton de Genève, 2 vols., Geneva and Paris, 1816.

1830

Emancipate Your Colonies! Addressed to the National Convention of France, A° 1793, shewing the Uselessness and Mischievousness of distant Dependencies to an European State, London, 1830.

MS add.

Text added to the original manuscript reading.

MS orig.

Original manuscript reading.