ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the earlier letters of John Stuart Mill. Mill has not been altogether fortunate in the manner in which his memory was served by those most concerned and best authorized to honour it. The present volume contains some of the most important sources of information we have on all the different spheres of Mill's activities. A considerable part of Mill's library and at least some of his papers were disposed of at a sale held at Avignon from May 21 to 28, 1905. One of the first steps taken by the latter soon after the return to England was, on the advice of John Morley, to give that part of Mill's and Helen Taylor's library which had been stored in London to Somerville College. It seems that shortly after Helen Taylor's death Mary Taylor placed the collection of Mill's correspondence in the hand of Mr. Hugh S. R. Elliot.
