Letters John Stuart Mill by Mill: Signed (2 results)
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Condition: very good. Toronto : University of Toronto Press ; London : Routledge, 1991. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xlii, 325 pp. Tear in dustjacket (repaired). - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was educated by his father and through his influence obtained a clerkship at India House. He formed the Utilitarian Society which met to read a…nd discuss essays, and in 1825 he edited Bentham's Treatise upon Evidence. In 1826 he suffered an acute mental crisis and found that poetry helped him recover the will to live, particularly the work of Wordsworth. Having reconsidered his aims and those of the Benthamite school, he met Harriet Taylor and she inspired a great deal of his philosophy. They married in 1851. Utilitarianism was published in 1861 but before that Mill published his System of Logic (1843), Principles of Political Economy (1848) and On Liberty (1839). His other works include his classic Autobiography (1873). Mill retired in 1858 and became the independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. He spent the rest of his life in France and died in Avignon. This volume contains more than 300 letters by John Stuart Mill that have been discovered since the publication of Earlier Letters in 1962 and Later Letters in 1972. The collection covers a vast rangle of topics, and includes three groups of letters of special interest: a series of notes to Henry Cole, friend and ally of Mill, dealing among other things with the disposition of the London and Westminster Review; the full versions of letters to Theodor Gomperz, Mill's leading German disciple and translator, which had been thought destroyed; and, most exceptionally, recently found internal correspondence in the Examiner's Office of the East India Company, which sheds new light on Mill's career. The introduction to the volume, by Marion Filipiuk, places the letters in context, gives detail about the three special groups, and outlines the history of the collection. The letters are presented in full scholarly form, with notes giving information about the texts and their provenance, and also historical and bibliographic information. An appendix provides the first published check-list of letters to Mill, with their locations. Other appendices give variant readings from the Gomperz leters, a finding list of form letters signed by Mill in the India Office Library and Records, an index of correspondents represented in this volume, an index of persons and works cited in the letters, and an analytical index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780802027689. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873).
More imagesTwo signed letters from Abraham Hayward regarding John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. Two letters from the author, Abraham Hayward (1801-1884), to the editor of the Times, John Thaddeus Delane, both referring to John Stuart Mill, one of which is altogether bitchy about Mill's wife, Harriet Taylor. Both letters mounted to the edges, probably taken from an album at some stage.'I fi…nd Mill's wife was the wife of a druggist who (treating her as a drug) handed her over to Mill, who lived conjugally with her for years before her husband's death & very unconjugally after - as they were constantly quarrelling. The eldest son of the druggist objected to the arrangement & quarrelled with Mill and his mother - in return for which, she (under Mill's direction I suppose) left all the care away from him at her death. This is the lady over whose mausoleum at Avignon travellers are to weep!'. Signed by Author(s).
