Mill, James 1773-1836
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1773 · died 1836
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote The History of British India (1817) and was one of the prominent British historians to take a colonial approach. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British, a classification which has proved surpassingly influential in the field of Indian historical studies.
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Four volumes of commonplace books, containing extracts on political and philosophical subjects, with his comments, c. 1810-1819. London Library.These commonplace books can now be consulted online at http://www.intellectualhistory.net/mill.
One volume of manuscript notes, largely bibliographical. Also two letters of 1831 and 1833 to Albany Fonblanque. Mill-Taylor collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
57 letters from David Ricardo, 1811-1823, are kept with the Ricardo papers. Cambridge UL, Add. MS. 7510.
Four letters to various correspondents, 1827-1829. Hollander collection, University of Illinois Library, Urbana.
Some of his correspondence, including letters from Bentham. John Stuart Mill collection, Yale UL
Correspondents
JEREMY BENTHAM, four letters, 1809. BL Add. MS. 33544.
JEREMY BENTHAM, some letters and other papers, 1814-1827. Bentham papers, University College London (UCL)
JEREMY BENTHAM, one letter, 1814. King’s College, Cambridge.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 24 letters, 1811-1836. Brougham papers, UCL
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, four letters, 1825. National Library of Scotland (NLS), MS. 673.
ETIENNE DUMONT, several letters, n.d. Dumont MSS., Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire de Geneve.
MACVEY NAPIER, 23 letters, 1814-1831. B. M. Add. MSS. 34611-34615.
FRANCIS PLACE , many items (mainly copies), 1814-1831.
BL Add. MSS. 35144-35153, 37949.
DAVID RICARDO, 49 letters, 1810-1823. Cambridge UL, Add. MS. 7510.
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, eight letters, 1829-1831. Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
Printed Material
ALEXANDER BAIN, James Mill: A Biography ( London, 1882).
DONALD WINCH, James Mill: Selected Economic Writings ( Edinburgh, 1966).
New Palgrave ODNB; ESS X 480.
Portrait: see Winch (above).