PP/14/2/2/4 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to W.A. Thorpe, 10/7/51]

Reference code

PP/14/2/2/4

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Jack Pritchard to W.A. Thorpe, 10/7/51]

Date/s

1951

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
Bentham, Samuel, 1757-1831

Subject

Woodwork -- Technique

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Creator

Thorpe, W. A.

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Jack Pritchard asks W.A. Thorpe to confirm that Jeremy Bentham was one of the first people "to send a mission to America to study machines for woodworking ... and that he wishes to install this machinery to assist prisoners in his famous prison to make furniture efficiently."

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/14 - Papers given to learned bodies [by Jack Pritchard]
  - PP/14/2 - Furniture Design
    - PP/14/2/2 - Changing Character of Furniture. Jack Pritchard Royal Society of Arts Lecture, 16/1/52
      - PP/14/2/2/4 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to W.A. Thorpe, 10/7/51]

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