Guide to the Letters to John Chapman, 1861-1867

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 316
Creator:
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Extent:
0.07 metres and (1 security binder)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Letters of John Stuart Mill to John Chapman, National Library of Australia, MS 316, [item number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for reference. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:
The collection comprises 18 letters written by John Stuart Mill to Dr John Chapman regarding articles Mill had written or intended to write. They were written from Blackheath Park, Salzburg and Saint Vernan in Avignon between 1861 and 1867.
Biographical Note:

John Stuart Mill was one of the great intellectuals of the Victorian age and his writings have had a profound influence on political, economic and social thought. The son of the utilitarian philosopher James Mill, he was born in London in 1806 and educated by his father. He joined his father as a clerk at India House in 1823 and held senior positions there until the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. He was a Member of Parliament from 1865 to 1868.

Mill published a huge number of books, pamphlets and articles. Among his most significant writings were System of logic (1843), Essays on some unsettled questions of political economy (1844), Principles of political economy (1848), Thoughts on parliamentary reform (1848), On liberty (1859), Considerations on representative government (1861), The subjection of women (1869) and Autobiography (published posthumously in 1873).

In 1851 Mill married Mrs Harriet Taylor, the sister of Arthur Hardy of Adelaide. She died in 1858. For the rest of his life Mill spent half the year at Avignon in France and the other half at Blackheath in London. He died in Avignon in 1873.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

The collection was purchased by the Library from the Museum Book Store, London in 1953.

Arrangement:

The letters have been arranged in chronological order and housed in a security binder.

Indexed terms

Names:
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is available for reference.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Letters of John Stuart Mill to John Chapman, National Library of Australia, MS 316, [item number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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