ABSTRACT
Sir,— John Stuart Mill’s appearance is generally known only from portraits taken very late in his life. The only known early portraits are the Daguerreotype reproduced as frontispiece to Volume 1, and the cameo or medallion reproduced opposite page 322 of H. S. R. Elliot’s edition of the Letters of John Stuart Mill (1910).2 The latter is undoubtedly the earlier and almost certainly identical with, or at least derived from, a portrait of Mill done by an artist named Cunningham in Falmouth in April, 1940, when Mill was in his thirty-fourth year. It is mentioned in Caroline Fox’s Memories of Old Friends, and referred to as a medallion in an unpublished letter by John Sterling to Mill of the same year.
