Signed Letter From The Author, Abraham Hayward, Disparaging John Stuart Mill And His Wife And Collaborator, Harriet Taylor Mill Abraham Hayward [John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill]]

Two signed letters from the author, Abraham Holroyd (1801-1884), to the editor of the Times, John Thaddeus Delane (1817-1879), both mentioning John Stuart Mill, and one discussing, rather disparagingly, arrangements between Mill and his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill. 'I find Mill's wife was the wife of a druggist who (treating her as a drug) handed her over to Mill, who lived conjugally with her four years before her husband's death & very unconjugally after, as they were quarrelling. The eldest son of the druggist objected to the arrangement & quarrelled with Mill and his mother - in return for which she (under Mill's direction I suppose) left all she could away from him at her death. This is the lady over whose mausoleum travellers are to weep.' Both letters mounted at the edges. Harriet Taylor was a free thinking, feminist, who wrote largely anonymously, married Mill in 1851 and is understood to have collaborated on many of Mill's works. They were married in 1851. Harriet Taylor died in Avignon in 1858.