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Mill's correspondent is either Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814-83), private secretary to Lord Cranborne, secretary of state for India, or his brother William Joseph Eastwick (1808-89), member of the Council of India. Mill had spent the whole of his professional career at the East India Company, 1823-58, and was MP for Westminster, 1865-68. This letter is not printed in the Collected Works.