• Name: Mills, Alfred
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 1776
• Death Date: 7  December  1833
• Occupation: draughtsman

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Most of the 25 entries, between 1790-1817, are plain calls. Perhaps the only useful one might be 'Mills applies to W Allen' (11.6.1814). W Allen is 'W. Allen, F.R.S. and L.S. William Allen (1770­1843), of Plough Court, Lombard Street, was a prominent Quaker philanthropist and scientist, who at the time he subscribed to Hazlitt's book held a lectureship at Guy's Hospital. He was a friend of Thomas Clarkson, who as Hazlitt's patron may have been responsible for interesting him in the History, though it is worth adding that when subscribing to Coleridge's The Friend in 1809, he dealt not with Clarkson but with Montagu. Allen was elected FRS in 1807.' Duncan Wu, 'Hazlitt's Unpublished History of English Philosophy'. Allen was involved, with Robert Owen, in financing the New Lanark experiment.

It is possible that Mills refers to Alfred Mills (1776–1833), draughtsman, who was a designer of illustrations for books for educating the young: these include Pictures of Roman History in Miniature (1809), Pictures of Grecian History (1810), Pictures of English History in Miniature (1811), and A Short History of the Bible and New Testament (1810). He worked or publishers such as Darton and Harvey of Gracechurch Street, and J. Harris of St Paul's Churchyard. The coincidence of interests in juvenile literature, and in the subject matter of their works is striking, as is the intensity of their contact in 1809-10, when the Juvenile Library is most active.

The attributions in the 1790s are very tentative, although they are in publishing circles. But in 1802 he identifies A Mills. A Mills and Alfred Mills are also noted in 1814. This might suggest that the interim Mills entries are to another Mills. But given Godwin's rather haphazard use of initials, it is difficult to say for sure. The entry for Capt Mills in 1806 has not been coded, not a Mills entry shortly after in the same circle around Curran.

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• Duncan Wu, ‘Hazlitt’s Unpublished History of English Philosophy: The Wider Context’, The Library 7.1 (2006) 25-64.

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