ABSTRACT

This chapter is talks about John Stuart Mill's correspondence. Apart from the comparatively well-known collections of his correspondence with Auguste Comte and Gustave d'Eichthal, many others, no less interesting, which have fallen in undeserved oblivion. The London School of Economics, which some years ago acquired a substantial part of the papers left behind by Mill, has conducted a preliminary survey of existing material with a view to the publication after the war of a new collection of his letters. Some letters of the later period which have already come to light suggest some doubt whether the set of drafts from which Mr. Elliot was able to choose was really as complete or, perhaps, whether his selection was always as judicious as one might wish. A new collection of Mill's letters up to 1847 is, however, in a state of active preparation, though publication will have to wait till after the war.