MILL JOHN STUART Autograph Letter Signed J S Mill

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MILL, JOHN STUART. Autograph Letter Signed, "J. S. Mill," to an unnamed recipient, praising Captain (and author) Philip Meadows Taylor's administration of Shorapore and requesting that he assert his influence on the India Board to help him keep the position. 4 pages, folded 8vo sheet. India House, 23 September 1865

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" . . . I may say indeed that his being at Shorapore now is owing to me, for some expressions of approval & praise, in a dispatch written by me, were what induced the Indian Government to suspend their intention of replacing him by a civil servant of the Company . . .