Welcome to the Transcribe Bentham weekly progress update for the period 31 August to 6 September 2013. Fantastic progress continues to be made by our volunteers, who this week transcribed 7,217 words of Bentham text as well as 3,198 words of TEI XML.

6,035 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 22 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 5,744 have met the required quality-controls and are complete, which is up 23 on this time last week. The new Box 121 continues to receive the most attention, which is unsurprising given the fascinating accounts it contain of Bentham’s attempts to rescue his Panopticon scheme, such as this exchange of letters with Evan Nepean transcribed by volunteer Ohsoldgirl.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 2: 461 manuscripts transcribed of 753 (61%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
• Box 35: 283 of 439 (64%)
• Box 41: 52 of 528 (9%)
• Box 42: 41 of 910 (4%)
• Box 50: 142 of 198 (71%)
• Box 51: 361 of 940 (38%)
• Box 62: 53 of 565 (9%)
• Box 70: 294 of 350 (84%)
• Box 71: 663 of 663 (100%)
• Box 72: 611 of 664 (92%)
• Box 73: 151 of 151 (100%)
• Box 79: 199 of 199 (100%)
• Box 95: 120 of 147 (81%)
• Box 96: 528 of 539 (97%)
• Box 97: 68 of 296 (23%)
• Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
• Box 100: 176 of 422 (39%)
• Box 107: 425 of 538 (79%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 470 of 864 (54%)
• Box 121: 59 of 526 (8%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Overall: 54% of the 11,014 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

Finally, a last call for those who have not yet seen or heard us mentioned on the BBC last week in a feature about prison food in the Panopticon. The audio feature for PM on BBC Radio 4, along with a video showing the making of Bentham’s Devonshire pie are both available from the UCL Bentham Project’s homepage.

We wish to express our gratitude to all our volunteers for their hard work this week, which continues to surpass our expectations of quality and quantity. Your efforts are all greatly appreciated.