| Description | Draft of the Will of Jeremy Bentham, dated 1832. The will gives directions for the disposal and preservation of Bentham's body, and for the articulation of the skeleton, which is "to be put together in such a manner that the whole figure may be seated in a chair... in the attitude in which I am sitting when engaged in thought". Manuscript, not in Bentham's hand. Lacks the pages marked "Auto-Icon" which are present in the typed version, see BENTHAM/155/36-38. |