[TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de (1805-1859)]
[Four manuscript letters from Tocqueville to John Stuart Mill (3) and Henry Reeve (1), written in the hand of Gustave de Beaumont evidently in preparation for his edition of Tocqueville's Oeuvres]
Paris: 1839-1849. 17pp., written recto only on 17 sheets. With a few pieces of related ephemera by J.P. Mayer (the editor of the Gallimard edition of Tocqueville's Oeuvres Completes).
From the Tocqueville papers of Gustave de Beaumont.
The letters comprise as follows: To John Stuart Mill, 15 October 1839. OC (ed. de Beaumont), vol. VI, p. 93. To John Stuart Mill, 18 December 1840. OC (ed. de Beaumont), vol. VI, p. 106. To John Stuart Mill, 23 April 1847. OC (ed. Mayer), vol. VI, p. 348 To Henry Reeve, 5 July 1849. OC (ed. Mayer), vol. VI, p. 103.
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