John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), philosopher and economist, was educated privately by his father, James Mill. Apart from other press markings, these are divided by pencil strokes into various sections with, at the side of each, the names of the particular compositors to whom the various parts of the work were assigned. As a result and because, by a slip, Mary Colman numbered two folios 150, the press-copy, although foliated 1-265, contains in fact only 264 folios. The section they contain was recopied by the continental hand, the writer of which compressed Helen Taylor's 25 folios into 23 to allow for this, her next folio (26) was re-numbered 24, 25, 26. 44, line 11) were retained in the press-copy but folios 1-25 were not. Helen Taylor began the copying of the manuscript and wrote the first 30 folios on blue paper of these, folios 26 ( ought to, 1873 edition, p.36, line 6) to 30 ( older than myself, ibid. II, folios 1-25, a separate copy in the hand of Helen Taylor, of the bulk of Chapter I of the Autobiography (ending with the words applied, or, i.e.
174, line 5) in the hand of Mill's sister, Mary Elizabeth Colman. 143, line 14) to 184 ( personally acquainted, ibid. 113, line 21) folios 143 ( I had now learnt, ibid. 55, line 6) to 123 ( & by some modern, ibid, p. (c) folios 39 ( there I each summer, ibid.174, line 16) to 265 (end) in the hand of Mill's stepdaughter, Helen Taylor, who is also responsible for corrections and emendations in other portions of the manuscript 143, line 13) folios 185 ( I have already mentioned, ibid.
113, line 21) to 142 ( speculation and for action, ibid.
55, line 6) folios 124 ( biographies, above all by Condorcet's life, ibid. 36, line 16 ( when it was applied, or) written in an unidentified continental hand
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