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• Introduction
• Additional Earlier Letters 1824–1848
• Additional Later Letters 1849-1873
• Undated Letters
• Appendix A; Letters to Theodor Gomperz: Variant Readings
• Appendix B: List of Form Letters At the India Office Library and Records
• Appendix C: Additions and Corrections to the Check List of Mill’s Indian Despatches In Volume Xxx
• Appendix D: List of Letters to Mill
• Appendix E: Index of Correspondents
• Appendix F: Index of Persons, and Works Cited, With Variants and Notes

Appendix B

LIST OF FORM LETTERS AT THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY AND RECORDS

as examiner of Indian Correspondence in the East India House, Mill served as Clerk to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors. In this capacity, he frequently wrote to the responsible official of the Board of Control, Thomas N. Waterfield (Senior Clerk in the Secret Department), to request the release of various secret documents. The form letter on these occasions, prepared by a clerk for Mill’s signature, was worded: “I am directed by the Secret Committee to request, that the Right Honorable the Commissioners for the Affairs of India will be pleased to authorize the Committee to communicate to the Court of Directors the undermentioned Secret Papers . . . .” Details of the necessary documents followed.

The list below provides the location of these requests in the India Office Library and Records, the date, and a brief summary of the subject matter of the letter.