| AdminHistory | Born into a prominent New Jersey family, 1756; a grandson of the theologian Jonathan Edwards; studied law; served on the staff of General George Washington during the War of Independence (1775-1783) but was transferred after antagonizing him; third Vice-President of the USA, 1801-1805; killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel, 1804; his turbulent political career ended with his arrest for treason, 1807; died, 1836. |
| CustodialHistory | Formerly part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. Found with a note on happiness by Jeremy Bentham, dated 22 June 1830, in the birthday album of Maria Lewin Bowring, eldest daughter of Sir John Bowring. |