1From Jeremy Bentham to John Adams Smith, 29 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your friend the Consul for New York, whom you were mentioning to me—Hunter I believe the Gentleman’s name is—will he partake of Share the Potatoes and Water of this hermitage, tête a tête at 7 on Wednesday Thursday next? An answer the Sooner the better—will oblige Your servt GBLUc : Jeremy Bentham Papers.
2From Jeremy Bentham to John Adams Smith, 22 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Scarce has your prophecy been utterd, which was fulfilled. Your new Master I see is arrived and arrived, and arrived in style . Lay me, I beseech you in all due fear at the feet of his Excellency and with a smile beg for me tell him how proud I shall should feel of learning of the honour of his protection. that done, with that seriousness which your opinion of my a belief as well I hope...
3To James Madison from Jeremy Bentham, [September] 1817 (Madison Papers)
Length of intervals considered, our correspondence has been better suited to an antediluvian life, than to one which is so near its close as mine is. I mention this—not in the way of reproach to yourself, from whom at no time, to such an address as mine, was any answer at all matter of debt, but purely in the way of regret on my own account. Two works of mine—not to mention a number of others...