TC to [JSM, late Sept. ?]. MS: Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz. Hitherto unpbd. Dated with reference to Carlyle's visit to Scotland, and the probability that Mill could have lent Carlyle the books noted below as he had already read Guizot and had corresponded with Joseph Blanco White from April to November on the subject of a review of Guizot's works. See Mineka, XII, 259 ff. [To maintain the order established by the editors of the CL, this letter has been assigned a document date of 30 Sept. 1835.]

1. François P. G. Guizot (1787–1874), historian and statesman; his main works at this date were Histoire générale de la civilization en Europe, depuis la chute de l'Empire Romain jusqu'a la Révolution Française (Paris, 1828) and Histoire de la civilisation en France depuis la chute de l'empire Romain jusqu'en 1789 (Paris, 1829–32), 5 vols.