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Lot 125

MILL (JOHN STUART)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MILL (JOHN STUART)

Autograph letter signed, to S. Sterne, inviting him to dine in Blackheath at 5 pm on Sunday ("...There is a train by the North Kent Railway from Charing Cross at five minutes past four which will set you down at the Blackheath Station. Our house is the last but one at the further end of Blackheath Park, and is about ten minutes walk from the station..."), 3 pages, headed paper, a little dust-marked, very small split at one fold, small 8vo, Blackheath Park, 20 May 1868

Footnotes

SUPPING WITH AN AMERICAN RADICAL: Simon Sterne, who is here being invited to Blackheath, was a distinguished New York lawyer, radical, and expert on constitutional law. He was lecturer on political economy in Cooper Union, editor of The Social Science Review, a founder of the Proportional Representation Society and author of Representative Government and Personal Representation (1870). Mill's own Considerations on Representative Government had appeared in 1861. No doubt consideration for his American visitor prompted Mill to be so particular regarding train times: the train service from Charing Cross to Blackheath, as presently constituted, takes 43 minutes which, with approximately ten minutes walk at the other end, would have got Sterne to Mill's house more-or-less on the dot of five (those wishing to retrace the journey should note that Sunday trains now leave at four minutes to, rather than five minutes past, four). This letter is not printed in the Collected Works.

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