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Excerpt from The Letters of John Stuart Mill, Vol. 1 Miss Helen Taylor, to whom the letters passed when Mill died, took no steps towards their publication. Her death took place on 29th january 1907, and the letters then became the property of Miss Mary Taylor, daughter Of Algernon Taylor, and grand-daughter of Mrs. Mill. She decided that the time had come for the publication of the letters, which are accordingly now presented to the public. Among the various portraits included in the book, I wish to draw special attention to that of James Mill. Like the portrait published in Bain's Life Of james Mill, it is from a drawing that originally belonged to Mrs. Grote. It is the portrait Of which Bain wrote in his preface to that biography: A still better likeness was at one time in her possession, but I cannot learn what became Of it. It may therefore be considered as the best existing likeness of James Mill. The frontispiece Of vol. Ii. Is from the well-known Watts portrait hanging In the National Portrait Gallery. This is not the portrait for which Mill actually sat, but is a copy Of it made by Watts from his original, which is now in the possession Of Sir Charles Dilke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.