| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | MS OGDEN/80 |
| Title | Mill Manuscript |
| Date | 1806, 1812 |
| Date2 | 1827-1828 |
| Description | Manuscript of a speech by John Stuart Mill, 'On the present state of literature', 1827-1828, on the back of a manuscript by Jeremy Bentham on evidence, 1806, 1812. |
| Extent | 10 folios |
| AdminHistory | John Stuart Mill: born in London, 1806; philosopher, economist, exponent of Utilitarianism, and reformer; died at Avignon, France, 1873. Jeremy Bentham: born, 1748; philosopher, Utilitarian, and reformer; died, 1832. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |
| Acquisition | Part of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Related Material | University College London Special Collections also holds the papers of Jeremy Bentham: a description, also specifying the location of other papers relating to him, is available online. Other papers of John Stuart Mill at University College London Special Collections comprise 122 letters to Edwin Chadwick [1827]-1872 (Ref: CHADWICK); 18 letters to Augustus De Morgan, 1847-1868 (Ref: MS ADD 97); 35 letters to George Croom Robertson, 1863-1873, and two letters from him (Ref: MS ADD 88/8,14); a letter to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1829 (Ref: SDUK); three letters concerning University College London business, 1827, 1838, 1849 (Ref: COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE); a photocopy of a press cutting, 1819, containing a letter to Samuel Bentham (Ref: MS MISC 2M).
Correspondence and papers of John Stuart Mill are also held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; British Library of Political and Economic Science; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Royal Society; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; Oxford University, Somerville College Library; Cambridge University, King's College Archive Centre; Cambridge University, Trinity College Library; Leeds University, Brotherton Library; Manchester University, John Rylands Library; Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies; Co-Operative Union Archive, Manchester; National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division; Maison D'Auguste Comte, Paris; National Library of Australia; University of Melbourne Library; University of Toronto Library; and, in the USA, Yale University Libraries, Beinecke Library; University of Illinois Library, Urbana; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York; Northwestern University Library, Illinois; Johns Hopkins University Libraries, Baltimore; Huntington Library, San Marino, California. For further details see the National Register of Archives. |
| FindingAids | Handlist at University College London Special Collections. |