Note 354 — Chapter V · THE RELIGIOUS SANCTION: “SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHT” (1860)

In some testamentary instructions, made early in 1862, she expressed a desire that the “stuff” should be “revised and arranged according to the hints of Mr. Jowett and Mr. Mill, but without altering the spirit according to their principles with which I entirely disagree. But he who would have done this is gone”—doubtless a reference to Mr. Clough. In 1865 she asked Mr. Jowett himself if he would edit the “stuff” for her. But he remained of his former opinion that it required to be recast entirely: it was, he said (April 24), “rather the preparation or materials of a book than a book itself.”