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about three years, but its completion proved to take instead twelve years, with
three substantial volumes at last being published early in 1817.[1] The work was
immediately successful among British imperialists and secured for Mill for the
first time a degree of prosperity. It led, with the support of David Ricardo and
Joseph Hume, to Mill's appointment in 1819 in United_Kingdom as assistant (late
r chief) examiner of correspondence at the imperial East India Company at an ann
ual salary of 800. By 1836, when he died, this income had become 2,000.[1]