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Notes
The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, 1812-1848, ed. Francis E. Mineka (1963), I, 312. The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, 1812-1848, although appearing as volumes XII and XIII of the projected "Collected Works of John Stuart Mill," actually forms a two-volume collection of his letters and for the purposes of this paper will be designated as I and II. The author is indebted to research assistant Elizabeth Ross Danz and student assistant Ron Harry Powers for assistance in the preparation of this paper.
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Unpublished manuscript diary. All excerpts are quoted by the courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London, and by permission of Mrs. Roger Dutnall, Henry Cole's great-granddaughter. The present author transcribed the years 1839-1841, from microfilm.
The author is well aware that the evidence of Cole's diary results in some alteration of sequence of letters in Mineka's Earlier Letters. Given the present reading #273 should appear before #271, followed by #276. The dates should be 6 or 7 February and 8 February. As will be illustrated, #277 should be dated 5 March and #275, 6 March. The date for #278 should be 10 or 11 March, and for #279, Monday, 16 March.
Mineka, II, 420. Footnote #2 on the same page reads thus: "This was probably the proposal described in an unpublished letter (n.d., owned by Professor McCrimmon) from Cole to JSM: 'I had much talk with Hickson last night about the Review. He is most decidedly averse to Robertson's having the editorship . . . R. asked me whether I was willing to become sole proprietor—he remaining the Editor under certain conditions to be agreed upon between us . . . R. proposes to me . . . that I should have unconditional control of the Management or business part of the Review.'"
Mineka, II, 421. The dating of this letter is made difficult by the word "Thursday" at the top. 5 March was a Thursday and 12 March a Thursday, one too early and one too late. The better assumption would probably be 5 March.
Ibid., 423, f.n. "Mrs. Towers [editor of a previous series of twenty-one letters of JSM to John Robertson] explains that Robertson had hoped to get into Parliament, 'and he would have used the Review, had he continued his editorship, to support the Whigs . . . Lord Normanby had had one interview, if not more, with Robertson with reference to this subject.'"
Packe, 247. "His [Mill's] attempt to keep Robertson's salary intact was defeated by the strict economy applied by Hickson. Giving his own labour as editor and author free, and dividing any profit there might be between the contributors in place of regular payments, Hickson reduced the cost."
Mineka, II, 422. This letter was probably written either 10 or 11 March—after the conference on the 10th between Mill and Cole and Hickson, and before Mill's letter of transferral on the 12th. This establishes the date of the next letter to Robertson, #279, as the following Monday, 16 March.
I am indebted to the Wellesley Index and Professor Walter E. Houghton, for authenticating these dates.
Hickson's book, The Singing Master, 1836, exerted a wide influence and established Hickson as one of the early pioneers of National Education. He continued his activities in this field with an address on 29 May 1838, to the powerful Sunday School Union titled Use of Singing as a Part of the Moral Discipline of Schools, later published as a pamphlet.
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