Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
“It seems evident from his unpublished piece that his reading of the Mill-Taylor letters gave Hayek a bit of a shock. He knew, of course, from the Autobiography that Mill had an elevated opinion of Mrs. Taylor. The letters seem to have convinced Hayek that she dominated him. Hayek would doubtless have seen this as a weakness, and he might well have lost some respect for Mill as a result. It may also have provided a convenient explanation for Hayek for why a great mind like Mill might nonetheless “desert” the liberal camp. (Hayek’s hope to lead others to the same conclusion might have helped motivate him to write the book on the correspondence between Mill and Taylor.) Given what has sometimes been said about the dominating personality of Hayek’s second wife, one wonders whether Hayek would later in his life have felt even more commonalities with Mill.”
"Hayek and Mill", History of Political Economy (2008)
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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

Source: Money, Interest and Wages, (1982), p. 28; on his "Equilibrium and the Cycle" (1933), an influential work on the topics of intertemporal equilibrium, monetary theory, and trade cycle phenomena.