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Macmillan & Co., 29 & 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, W.C. Dated July 7, 1884 - Hears from James Gow that Frazer would like to translate Pausanias, says he had thought of doing it himself, suggests it would not be a huge commercial success, but are willing to take on the cost of print and paper and divide the profits equally, suggests a one volume edition with limited notes.

Letters date from 16 Feb. 1888 to Jan. 1918.

3 Belford Park, Edinburgh. Dated 18 February, 1923 - [James] Gow has died, lived on the same stair in the Bishop's Hostel, wanted to make way at the bar, but was instead forced to become a schoolmaster, about which he 'spoke ... most bitterly'; Adam Sedgwick asked Asquith why he didn't make Cunningham bishop and he said 'I can't make a tariff reformer a bishop'; is an odd world in which Lloyd George is an appointer of bishops and keeper of England's conscience and maker of peace; sends an article on the mark [not transcribed]; is very busy with large classes.

Dated June 10th, 1916 - Thanks him for his letter of sympathy on the death of his son in the war, serving on the HMS Defence.

19 Dean's Yard, S.W. [on mourning stationery] - Thanks him for his letter of sympathy on the death of his son [Roderick Charles Alister] in the war, serving on the HMS Defence.

Correspondence concerning the donation of a print of Mill to Trinity College by Henry Manning Ingram, with four letters from his friend and Trinity College Master Henry Montagu Butler dated Jan. 1908, with two other letters relating to Mill sent to Ingram, one of them from J. H. Cooper enclosing a letter from Mill to Charles Gordon. After H. M. Ingram's death, the correspondence continues, with 18 letters between his son Arthur D. Ingram (carbon typescripts) and Butler (originals). Much of the correspondence deals with the wording for the accompanying plaque and inscription on the back of the frame featuring biographical information for William Hodge Mill and Henry Manning Ingram, and is accompanied by six letters from Mill's grandsons Philip G. L. and Edmund Webb, and letters from James Gow and James Marshall. In addition, there are six letters sent to and from W. H. Mill: two to and from Thomas Robinson, two from C. A. Fowler, two more from Mill to [Samuel?] Wilberforce and Mill's mother.