Malthus-James Archive
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Welcome to the Malthus-James Archive, which consists of papers created or collected by Patricia James in the course of her research on Thomas Robert Malthus and his family.
Introduction
[Return to contents.]1. The papers were originally the property of Professor Donald Winch. They were inherited from Patricia James [hereafter PJ] in 1987 under a clause in her will which stated: "I give free of all duty to Professor Donald Winch [hereafter DW] of the University of Sussex, Arts Building, Brighton, BN1 9QN all my files of correspondence, notes and xeroxes relating to Malthus, to dispose of or to destroy as he may think fit."
2. The papers are kept in files that were created in the course of PJ's research from about 1961 onwards, as a result of which she published three major works on Thomas Robert Malthus [hereafter TRM] that established her reputation as the world's leading expert on all matters relating to TRM's life: The Travel Diaries of T. R. Malthus, Cambridge University Press, 1966; Population Malthus: His Life and Times, Routledge, 1979; and the posthumously published two-volume variorum edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1990. PJ also contributed to The Malthus Library Catalogue, Pergamon Press, 1983, and interspersed throughout the collection are a number of book reviews and unpublished lectures on TRM and related matters by PJ. It should be noted that, according to the terms of PJ's will, the copyright in all her published and unpublished works rests with her younger daughter, Mrs Eleanor Catherine Young. Her permission would have to be sought before any of her mother's works are published.
3. In the course of her researches PJ became a close friend of Mr. Robert Malthus [1881-1972, hereafter RM], of Sydenham, Fishbourne Lane, Ryde, Isle of Wight, the last family custodian of the manuscript material purchased by Kanto Gakuen University, Japan in 1991. The Kanto Collection of Malthus Manuscripts was published in 1997 and 2004 as T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, in 2 volumes, edited by John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society. RM was the son of Colonel Sydenham Malthus [1831-1916, hereafter SM], who was the grandson of TRM's eldest brother (see the family tree published in PJ's biography of TRM). SM owned all of the papers now held in the Kanto Collection as well as other material that is already in the public domain. Thus it was SM who originally gave permission to Professor James Bonar to publish Ricardo's letters to Malthus in 1887 (see SM letter in Appendix A), though the definitive edition of this correspondence did not appear until Malthus's letters were discovered in the Ricardo Papers and published under the editorship of Professor Piero Sraffa in 1962 as part of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. SM also lent Bonar the sequence of letters written by TRM to his father and mother and the letters from Richard Graves to TRM's father which are now in the Kanto Collection. These letters were previously known only through the extracts cited by TRM's friends (William Otter and William Empson) and in Bonar’s Malthus and His Work (Second edition, 1924). The copies made by Bonar were given to the University of Illinois and effectively rediscovered by Professor John Pullen.
4. As a result of inquiries made by Dr. G.F. McCleary, for whom PJ was working in a voluntary capacity, RM discovered the travel diaries which he inherited from his father. After Dr. McCleary's death in 1962 the diary was edited by PJ and published with a foreword by Lord Robbins and the support of the Royal Economic Society and the British Academy in 1966. RM also gave PJ permission to use any Malthus material that she discovered in the course of writing her life of TRM. He would undoubtedly, therefore, have given her the material now in the Kanto Collection if it had been found at the time. After RM's death in 1972, the material first passed to Miss Jean Catchpole, RM's housekeeper, and then through the hands of several British dealers before being purchased by Kanto Gakuen. At one stage in this process, just before she died, PJ was consulted in the preparation of the sale catalogue by one of these dealers (Maggs Brothers), and was responsible for correcting a number of mistakes. Copies of the correspondence relating to PJ's assessment of the Kanto Collection were sent to Professor Takeo Satoh and Mr.Trevor Hughes Parry for use in preparing the published transcripts.
5. It will be clear, therefore, that not only was PJ the most knowledgeable of TRM's twentieth-century biographers, but she had close connections with the family owner of the Kanto Collection. In both these respects, the comprehensive files she built up during her long research career are an important part of the provenance of the Kanto Collection as well as being a unique source of materials for future Malthus scholars throughout the world. It was for this latter reason that DW, after having made use of PJ's files to complete her work on the variorum edition of the Essay on Population, originally intended to deposit them with his own university library in Sussex. Given the close connections between PJ's papers and the Kanto Collection, the superior resources available at Kanto Gakuen for preserving and copying the material, DW transferred the originals to Kanto Gakuen on the condition that copies of the material were returned to him and to Professor John Pullen for eventual deposit in British and Australian libraries.
6. In compiling the enclosed catalogue DW has merely grouped the files into categories for ease of reference. No attempt has been made to rearrange the contents of the individual files. The following symbols have been used to draw attention to especially valuable aspects of the collection. The letter {M} indicates notes on manuscript sources that are not readily available and the letter {L} indicates copies or transcripts of Malthus letters. In the case of those copies or transcripts of letters which PJ obtained from private sources, it would be necessary to obtain the permission of the owners of the letters before publication.
7. For the electronic edition published on this website, the papers were scanned and organized by Peter Price and Kristopher Grint. Any enquiries regarding the digital Malthus-James archive should be made to Kristopher Grint. The project is supervised by Donald Winch and Richard Whatmore.
8. The following obituary by DW appeared in the History of Economic Thought Newsletter in Spring, 1987. It has been slightly modified at the end to accommodate facts that were not known at the time. It gives a bare outline of Patricia James’s life.
Obituary
[Return to contents.]PATRICIA DRIFT JAMES, 1917-1987
Malthus scholars throughout the world, especially those who were fortunate enough either to meet Patricia James at conferences, or to have corresponded with her, will learn with considerable regret that she died after a brief illness on March 15th of this year.
She was born February 14, 1917, the daughter of Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (whom she described as a "miscellaneous author") and Eileen Muriel (nee Hynes). She was educated at two private girls' schools and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where in 1937 she obtained a good second-class honours degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. After taking the Administrative Civil Service Course at the London School of Economics in 1937-8 she joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries as an Assistant Principal. Marriage, in 1939, to a fellow civil servant, Arthur Frederick James, required her to give up this career. She returned as a temporary civil servant after the outbreak of war, but resigned in 1940 on account of pregnancy.
The next two decades or so of Patricia James's life were mainly devoted to bringing up a family of four children, two daughters and two sons, though she also undertook voluntary work for the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and marked '0' level English examination papers during the summer. One of her neighbours in the Hampstead Garden Suburb where the family lived for over thirty years was Dr. George McCleary, whose book on The Malthusian Population Theory, written during his retirement, was published in 1953. Patricia James was one of the "honorary nieces" who read to Dr. McCleary during the last years of his blindness, and it was in this capacity that she accompanied the ninety-year-old scholar on a visit, undertaken in 1960, to surviving members of the Malthus family living on the Isle of Wight. The object of the expedition was to see if additional Malthus material existed, and while nothing was found during the visit, in the following year the MSS of Malthus's travel diaries was discovered and sent to Dr. McCleary, who passed the news to another friend and neighbour, Lionel (later Lord) Robbins. When Dr. McCleary died in 1962, Mrs James met Lord Robbins at the graveside, and it was subsequently arranged that the diaries should be transcribed for publication by Cambridge University Press under the auspices of the Royal Economic Society. Between them, the British Academy and the Royal Economic Society gave modest financial support to Patricia James's work on the MSS, and Norwegian Railways later contributed by giving her free tickets to help her retrace part of Malthus’s journey. The Travel Diaries of T. R. Malthus appeared in 1966, launching Patricia on the career that was to occupy her so fruitfully for the rest of her life.
Discovering how little was known about Malthus's life, and how many inaccuracies existed in the standard accounts, Patricia embarked on fifteen years of "intermittent research", assembling the mass of original material which eventually provided the basis for her Population Malthus: His Life and Times, published by Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1979. This work, the first complete biography to be written, was immediately recognized as the definitive treatment of its subject; and it made its author the leading expert on everything connected with the life of Malthus and the provenance of his writings. This expertise was called upon when an international colloquium devoted to Malthus was organised in Paris by the Societé de Demographie Historique in 1980; and she also contributed to The Malthus Library Catalogue published by Pergamon in 1983. It must be said, however, that in neither case did the published results of these two enterprises fully satisfy the standards of accuracy which Patricia James set for her own work.
It was with characteristic care and thoroughness, for example, that Patricia had, in the course of writing her biography, gone a good way towards preparing a variorum of the different editions of the Essay on Population, a work which underwent considerable transformation, not merely in the course of the well-known move from the first polemical version in 1798 to the much-enlarged second edition in 1803, but in almost all of the subsequent editions leading up to the final one to appear in Malthus’s lifetime in 1826. From 1981 onwards, commissioned and supported, though, still in a modest way, by the Royal Economic Society, Patricia devoted her remaining energies to preparing an annotated variorum of the Essay for publication by Cambridge University Press, a task which engaged all her knowledge, sympathies and formidable detective skills. Any sadness associated with the thought that she died before this handsome two-volume work could be published later this year (in tandem with John Pullen's variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy) must be tempered by relief that she was able to deliver her work to the Press in the form that only she could give it. The result will undoubtedly serve as a fitting monument to the elegantly meticulous labours of someone who was an "amateur" in only the fullest and best sense of the term, who not only set a shining example to many a mere "professional", but extended her lively enthusiasms and old-fashioned courtesy and charm to all those with whom she came in contact.
A copy of this archive of Malthusiana based on Patricia James's researches is being sent to Jesus College, Cambridge, Malthus’s college. Another copy is currently held by Professor John Pullen, who hopes to deposit it with the Australian National Library in Canberra. Patricia James also left a series of personal diaries and travel journals to her youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Young, which might one day be published in their own right as the reflections of a quietly yet truly remarkable woman.
DONALD WINCH
Catalogue
[Return to contents.]Click the View link next to any section to view a digital version. The original archive, consisting of approximately 12,500 leaves, was organised into 15 boxes. For reference, the box numbers are given after the description of each section, along with the range of pages and total number of pages. The letter {M} indicates notes on manuscript sources that are not readily available and the letter {L} indicates copies or transcripts of Malthus letters. See also introductory note 6.
1. Travel Diaries Files
| 1. 1 | One file of letters labelled Mr Malthus chiefly consisting of PJ's correspondence with RM and his housekeeper Miss Jean Catchpole over the period 1961 to 1986. The file also contains letters from Dr. G.F. McCleary and replies from RM reporting the discovery of the travel diaries. Box 1 pp.1-240 (240 pages) |
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| 1. 2 | One file labelled Malthus's Travel Diaries: How it all began! Containing PJ's correspondence with Cambridge University Press and the Royal Economic Society, including Professor Sir Austin Robinson's lengthy comments on an earlier version. There are also letters to and from Professor Ryozaburo Minami, former President of the Population Association of Japan, the scholar who was responsible for mounting an exhibition of Malthusiana in Japan in 1966, and correspondence with Norwegian authorities on the places visited by TRM in the course of his journey. Some of PJ's correspondence with Lord Robbins is to be found in this file: Lord Robbins was a friend of Dr.McCleary and wrote the foreword to the published version of the travel diaries. There are also letters concerning the Malthus portraits by John Linnell originally in the possession of RM, which were cleaned by the National Portrait Gallery before being given by RM to Haileybury School, the successor institution to the East India College at which TRM taught for most of his life. Box 1 pp.241-722 (482 pages) |
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| 1. 3a | Malthus Travel Diaries I (of II) consisting of miscellaneous correspondence, articles and reviews relating to the research and publication of the travel diaries. Also included are a page-by-page summary of the Scandinavian journal, the manuscript of a talk given by PJ at Haileybury School in 1965 which is a sketch for the biography she was later to write, and the text of an article by PJ on "The Curate of Okewood". Box 1 pp.723-907 (185 pages) |
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| 1. 3b | Malthus Travel Diaries II (of II) consisting of miscellaneous correspondence, articles and reviews relating to the research and publication of the travel diaries. Also included are a page-by-page summary of the Scandinavian journal, the manuscript of a talk given by PJ at Haileybury School in 1965 which is a sketch for the biography she was later to write, and the text of an article by PJ on "The Curate of Okewood". Box 2 pp.908-1179 (272 pages) |
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| 1. 4 | A file labelled Clarke letters consisting of photocopies of the manuscript letters of Edward Clarke to William Otter, two of TRM's closest friends. Clarke accompanied TRM on the journey recorded in the travel diaries {M}. Box 2 pp.1180-1300 (121 pages) |
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| 1. 5 | A file labelled Scandinavian Xeroxes containing photocopies of early nineteenth-century travel accounts used by PJ while editing TRM's travel diary. Box 2 pp.1301-1373 (73 pages) |
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2. Malthus Biography Files
While many of the later files in this catalogue were generated during PJ's research for her biography of TRM, this set of files centres on Malthus himself, the Malthus family, and his published works.
| 2. 1 | One file labelled Malthus's Mis[cellaneous] Letters consisting of notes, transcripts and photocopies of letters to John Linnell, Robinson Elsdale, Pierre Prevost, Henry Brougham, Etienne Dumont, J-B. Say, David Ricardo, Moses Ricardo (concerning his brother's letters to Malthus), Messrs Cadell and Davies, Alexander Marcet, Josiah Wedgwood, Francis Jeffrey (one bearing on TRM's article on bullion), Sir James Stephen, Henry Mackenzie, Rowland Hunter, Nassau Senior, MacVey Napier, Edward Clarke, William Empson, Karl Friedrich Czornig, William Otter and his wife, Basil Montagu, Sir James Mackintosh, Sydney Smith, and Robert Elsdale {L}. In all cases there is associated correspondence between PJ and the owners of these letters. [It should be noted that PJ did not use all of these letters in her biography of TRM, and that other letters to and from TRM are included in other files listed below.] Box 2 pp.1374-1603 (230 pages) |
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| 2. 2 | One file labelled Malthus's Clubs and Societies consisting of correspondence with Phillip Mallet the owner of the copyright on J. L. Mallet's diaries relating to the Political Economy Club held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, together with notes on the published and {M} unpublished parts of the diaries. PJ's notes identify those meetings of the Club at which TRM was present and the questions for debate which he raised. There are also notes on the British Association, the "King of Clubs", the Athenaeum, the Royal Society (including the signatures to the proposal that TRM be elected {M}), the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Statistical Society (including transcripts of letters from TRM to Charles Babbage {L}), the Geological Society of London, and correspondence with the Academie Royale de Belgique which includes the copy of a letter and a note from Malthus to Adolphe Quetelet {L}. Box 2 pp.1604-1788 (185 pages) |
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| 2. 3 | One file labelled Obit[uarie]s incl[uding] Empson - Savings Bank - Murray including transcripts and photocopies of TRM's letters to the publisher, John Murray {L}. There are also notes and photocopies of contemporary pamphlets on economic distress, savings banks, and the notices that appeared after TRM's death, as well as the transcript of a poem by Mrs William Busk on TRM's death {M}. There is also a copy of the expenses incurred by TRM's executors, the photocopy of a letter from TRM to Henry Cockburn, and notes and photocopies of William Empson's life of TRM. Box 3 pp.1789-1917 (129 pages) |
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| 2. 4 | One file labelled Bath and the Eckersalls contains a note on the tombstone and grave of Lucy Malthus, TRM's daughter, as well as notes on the Nixon-Eckersall papers and diaries {M}. There are family trees, photographs and a floor plan of Claverton House, material on Bath Abbey, a history of the parish of Claverton, verses by Richard Graves, notes from the Bath Directory, the text of a play entitled "Chrononhotonthologos" performed at Claverton, and typed extracts from Harriet Eckersall's diary of a tour of France and Switzerland. The file also contains some typescripts by PJ, including papers on "Malthus and Bath" and "Population Malthus and the Rector of Ashley", the first of which contains information on Richard Graves, the author of some letters now in the Kanto Collection, and the typescript of a Malthus letter to Cadell and Davies {L}. Box 3 pp.1918-2216 (299 pages) |
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| 2. 5 | One file labelled Family Other than Eckersall containing notes on the Bray family from their letter books and those of Warren, including material on TRM's financial dealings {M}. There are also notes on William Bray's diaries and a Bray family tree as well as PJ's notes on Sydenham Malthus's family notes {M}. There are notes on the wills of various members of the Malthus family, including TRM's will, and the typescript of "Extracts from the Recollections of Miss Louisa Bray [TRM's niece], 1857" {M}, with PJ's corrections of Miss Bray's mistakes. There is material on TRM's living at Walesby in Lincolnshire, including photocopies taken from contemporary maps. Among this material is the transcript of a letter from TRM to the Bishop of Lincoln and of letters to TRM {L}. There are also notes on the Chapel at Okewood where TRM obtained his first clerical position, together with contemporary maps, and notes from the parish registers {M}. Box 3 pp.2217-2487 (271 pages) |
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| 2. 6 | One file labelled Ancestors - Reading Apothecaries, Harrow, Surrey consisting of the material on TRM's ancestors collected by PJ in the course of her research. Included is the correspondence between PJ and the Librarian at Windsor Castle concerning several of TRM's ancestors who were servants of the crown, and when PJ delivered the notebooks of James Eckersall, Clerk to the Royal Kitchen in the first half of the eighteenth century, for copying as part of the Royal Archives. The file includes notes on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's visit to TRM's father, Daniel Malthus, notes and photocopies of J. D. Payne's history of the family of Malthus published in 1890, and research conducted at the various parish churches where TRM's ancestors were buried in Harrow, Reading, and Shere in Surrey. There is a collection of the relevant printed parish histories, which includes that relating to Okewood. There is also a photograph and descriptive material on "The Rookery", the house and grounds of the property owned by TRM's father. Box 4 pp.2488-2775 (288 pages) |
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| 2. 7 | One file labelled Bibliographies actually contains PJ's descriptions of portraits of members of the Malthus family (e.g. of the Graham children by William Hogarth)and of various individuals, churches, and houses connected with the family. There is also an extensive series of photographs of portraits of TRM's friends and of the houses and buildings with which he was associated, collected for use as illustrations in PJ's biography of TRM. Included too are bibliographies of works on TRM, the Church of England, late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century periodicals, and PJ's search lists. Finally, there are photocopies of letters from Elizabeth Gurney to an inn-keeper in Guildford. Box 4 pp.2776-2904 (129 pages) |
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| 2. 8 | One file labelled Miscellaneous Malthusiana - Personal containing a talk by PJ on Maria Graham, with a photograph of Maria with some odd correspondence with other Malthus scholars and sources. Box 4 pp.2905-2985 (81 pages) |
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| 2. 9 | One file labelled Population Reviews and Controversies to 1810 containing notes and photocopies of all the contemporary reviews of TRM's Essay on Population from 1798 onward, interspersed with PJ letters to librarians on TRM sources. Box 4 pp.2986-3169 (184 pages) |
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| 2. 10 | One file labelled Malthus on Corn and Adam Smith consisting of handwritten notes, annotated photocopies of parts of Malthus's Observations on the Corn Laws and his Grounds of an Opinion, together with other notes on the Wealth of Nations in various editions. Box 4 pp.3170-3276 (107 pages) |
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| 2. 11 | One file labelled Xeroxes of Princ[iple]s of Political Economy containing marked photocopies of passages from TRM's Principles not included in the Sraffa edition of Ricardo's Notes on Malthus, with corrections showing TRM's amendments based on Marshall Library sources {M}. Box 4 pp.3277-3340 (62 pages) |
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| 2. 12 | One file labelled Malthus on Population in Supplement to Encyclopaedia Britannica containing notes and photocopies of this work together with an annotated copy of Anthony Flew's edition of the first Essay and the Summary View. Box 5 pp.3341-3498 (158 pages) |
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| 2. 13 | One file labelled M[althus]'s Value, Bailey, Verbalist Demander containing an annotated photocopy of TRM's Measure of Value, notes on Samuel Bailey's works, annotated photocopies of Verbal Disputes in Political Economy and Inquiry into the Nature of Demand. Box 5 pp.3499-3632 (134 pages) |
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3. Topic Files
These files were also created while PJ was researching her biography of TRM, but they deal with various topical questions on which Malthus and his contemporaries wrote.
| 3. 1 | One file labelled M[althus]'s Value, Bailey, Verbalist Demander containing an annotated photocopy of TRM's Measure of Value, notes on Samuel Bailey's works, annotated photocopies of Verbal Disputes in Political Economy and Inquiry into the Nature of Demand. Box 5 pp.3633-3760 (127 pages) |
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| 3. 2 | One file labelled Currency consisting of notes and photocopies of pamphlets and articles relating to the bullion controversy, including TRM's article in the Edinburgh Review in 1810-11. Box 5 pp.3761-3938 (178 pages) |
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| 3. 3 | One file labelled Ireland consisting of notes and photocopies relating to Malthus's review of Newenham on the state of Ireland in the Edinburgh Review, including photocopies of Malthus's letters to Henry Parnell on tithes, rent, and Ireland {L}. Box 5 pp.3939-4023 (85 pages) |
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| 3. 4 | One file labelled Artizans and Machinery/Combination Laws consisting of correspondence with William Grampp on his work on "Malthus and his Contemporaries" and "The Economists and the Combinations Laws" plus notes and photocopies of the Report of the Select Committee on Artizans and Machinery, 1824. Box 5 pp.4024-4053 (30 pages) |
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| 3. 5 | One file labelled C[ommitt]ee on Emigration consisting of photocopies of the Report of the Select Committee on Emigration, 1826-7, including TRM's testimony. Box 5 pp.4054-4106 (53 pages) |
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| 3. 6 | One file labelled Poor Law (except for Weyland) - High Price of Provisions including notes and photocopies on articles, pamphlets and books on the Poor Laws, including the work of John Barton, William Wilberforce and Samuel Whitbread. Box 5 pp.4107-4222 (114 pages) |
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| 3. 7 | One file labelled Pol[itical] Ec[onom]y Review Articles containing the copy of an extract from a TRM letter held at the University of Illinois {L}, notes on Brougham's review of Lauderdale, a photocopy of the Quarterly Review article on Tooke, notes on the debate aroused by the Selective Employment Tax (1966), photocopies of articles from Blackwood's Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, the review of TRM's Principles in British Critic, and copies of TRM's published lectures to the Royal Society of Literature in 1825 and 1827. Box 6 pp.4223-4355 (133 pages) |
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| 3. 11 | One file labelled Population Malthus - Reviews containing published reviews and letters from friends occasioned by the publication of PJ's biography of TRM. Box 13 pp.10602-10797 (196 pages) |
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4. East India College Files
| 4. 1 | One file labelled East India Coll[ege], I[ndia] O[ffice] R[ecords] and M[althus]'s Pamphlets consisting of notes and photocopies of pamphlets, articles, reviews, letters, exam papers, and the minutes of meetings relating to the conduct of the College taken from the India Office Records {M}. There are also notes and annotated photocopies of TRM's pamphlets on the College and the transcript of a letter signed by TRM {L}. Box 6 pp.4356-4668 (313 pages) |
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| 4. 2 | One file labelled East India College Individuals containing notes from the memoirs of those who taught, worked, or were students at the college, including Le Bas, John and George Turner Venn, Mary Roper, John Dunbar, Augustus Bosanquet, Charles and Robert Grant, Brian Hodgson, Benjamin Babington, and Charles Stewart, some of these being Malthus's students. There are also reports from The Times on the college, as well as notes and photocopies of the Inverarity MSS held at the Marshall Library, Cambridge {M}. Box 6 pp.4669-4958 (290 pages) |
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| 4. 3 | One unlabelled file containing the printed examination papers set at the East India College during the period in which Malthus taught there. Box 6 pp.4959-5010 (52 pages) |
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| 4. 4 | One file labelled Edgeworth Letters from E[ast] I[ndia] College containing copies of letters from M. Pakenham Edgeworth while a student at the College {M}. Box 6 pp.5011-5075 (65 pages) |
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| 4. 5 | One file labelled Mackintosh Papers from Keele containing correspondence about and copies of letters and extracts from diaries in the papers of Sir James Mackintosh {M}, TRM's friend and colleague at the East India College, now held in the Wedgwood archive at Keele University. Box 7 pp.5076-5291 (215 pages) |
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5. Author Files
These files too were created while PJ was working on her biography of TRM, and are organised in terms of authors who were contemporaries and critics of TRM.
| 5. 1 | One file labelled Writers on Population - 1 - Booth - Place containing notes and annotated photocopies of David Booth's published defence of his contribution to Godwin's attack on Malthus in 1820 (in effect a reply to TRM's anonymous review of this work in the Edinburgh Review), together with notes on contemporary and modern authors organized alphabetically. Box 7 pp.5292-5473 (180 pages) |
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| 5. 2 | One file labelled Writers on Population - 2 - Lloyd -Ravenstone organized alphabetically, the most substantial notes being devoted to Francis Place, under whose name appears the transcript of a letter from TRM to Place {L}. Box 7 pp.5474-5631 (158 pages) |
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| 5. 3 | One file labelled Writers on Population - 3 - Read and Whateley containing notes and photocopies on Samuel Read, John Barton, Sismondi, J. C. Ross, Michael Sadler, Nassau Senior and Richard Whateley. Box 7 pp.5632-5774 (143 pages) |
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| 5. 4 | One file labelled Chalmers - Blake - Lalor - Ganilh - Misc[ellanous] containing notes and annotated photocopies of the works of these contemporaries of TRM, including the copy of a letter from TRM to Blake {L} and copies of TRM's correspondence with Chalmers (including a photograph of Chalmers's monument in Edinburgh). Box 7 pp.5775-5951 (177 pages) |
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| 5. 5 | One file labelled Say, Cazenove, Craig, James Mill containing notes and photocopies of works by these authors, plus correspondence between PJ and Barry Gordon on Cazenove and other Malthus sources. There is also a photocopy of the Reply to Mr. Say's Letters to Mr. Malthus written by Cazenove as well as Mr Say's Letters to Mr. Malthus. Box 8 pp.5952-6099 (148 pages) |
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| 5. 6 | One file labelled Jones, Whewell, West containing notes and photocopies relating to Richard Jones, TRM's successor at East India College, including copies of letters from Maria Edgeworth to Jones and a letter from Henry Malthus to Whewell, copies of TRM's letters to Whewell (as well as an offprint of N. de. Marchi and R. P. Sturges article reprinting these letters) {L}. Box 8 pp.6100-6257 (158 pages) |
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| 5. 7 | One file labelled Wilmot Horton - Gouger consisting of an annotated copy of R. N. Ghosh's article on TRM's letters to Wilmot Horton on emigration {L}, TRM's evidence to the Select Committee on Emigration, together with marked photocopies of the originals held at Derby {M}, and notes on the British Library holdings of pamphlets on emigration and colonisation by Wilmot Horton and Robert Gouger. There are also notes and photocopies relating to Charles Duchatel which are less obviously related to the other material in the file. Box 8 pp.6258-6446 (189 pages) |
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| 5. 8 | One file labelled Hazlitt - De Quincey - J. S. Mill - Statistics containing notes and photocopies of works by and about Edward Coplestone, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey, Robert Torrens, Joseph Priestley, and J.S.Mill, together with notes on modern authorities on population and national income statistics. Box 8 pp.6447-6664 (218 pages) |
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| 5. 9 | One file labelled Sismondi, 1979 containing the text of a lecture by PJ on "Malthus and Sismondi" together with notes and photocopies of works by and about Sismondi and Jean-Baptiste Say. Box 8 pp.6665-6937 (273 pages) |
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| 5. 10 | One file labelled Po[itical] Ec[onom]v, Adam Smith eds, McCulloch, Read consisting of notes and photocopies of J. R. McCulloch's reviews and articles on Malthus-related topics, together with notes on Buchanan's and Blanqui's edition of the Wealth of Nations, and Samuel Read's Political Economy. Box 9 pp.6938-7088 (151 pages) |
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| 5. 11a | A sequence of 6 files labelled People followed by the letters of the alphabet. This represents PJ's research on a wide range of individual authors when writing TRM's biography. The sequence also contains valuable material that connects with other files: for example, under C there is a complete checklist of Edward Clarke's letters (see above) and notes and annotated photocopies of his Life and Remains {M}; under E there are notes and transcripts taken from Maria Edgeworth's memoirs, especially those parts relating to TRM that were not included in the published versions, and other items from the Edgeworth archive {M}; under F there are photocopies of the pamphlets of William Frend, TRM's tutor; and under J there is the copy of a letter to TRM from Francis Jeffrey {L}; under S there are copies of some of Sydney Smith's letters to TRM {L}. [1 of 6] Box 9 pp.7089-7356 (268 pages) |
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| 5. 11b | [2 of 6] Box 9 pp.7357-7525 (169 pages) |
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| 5. 11c | [3 of 6] Box 9 pp.7526-7692 (167 pages) |
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| 5. 11d | [4 of 6] Box 10 pp.7693-7799 (107 pages) |
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| 5. 11e | [5 of 6] Box 10 pp.7800-8020 (221 pages) |
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| 5. 11f | [6 of 6] Box 10 pp.8021-8232 (212 pages) |
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6. Population Variorum Files
These files were created while PJ was editing her variorum edition of TRM's Essay on Population.
| 6. 1a | A sequence of 7 files labelled Malthus Population References followed by the letters of the alphabet indicating the author and/or source cited by TRM in his Essay on Population. Each file contains extensive notes and annotated photocopies identifying TRM's sources {M}. The notes, of course, contain far more information than could be published in PJ's "Alphabetical List of Authorities" in the second volume of her variorum, together with other material that supplements other files. For example, there are photocopies of the census abstracts cited by TRM (under Rickman); and under Gillies's translation of Aristotle there is a photocopy of TRM's Latin declamation (1787) taken from the Jesus College original (with four other English essays by others from the same source). Under Layton there are PJ's detailed criticisms of Professor Layton's Everyman edition of TRM's Essay on Population; and under Young there are copies of 4 letters from TRM to Arthur Young {L} taken from Add. MSS held in the British Museum, the last of which deals with the bullion question, the Corn Laws, and the post-war depression. [1 of 7] Box 10 pp.8233-8533 (301 pages) |
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| 6. 1b | [2 of 7] Box 11 pp.8534-8794 (261 pages) |
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| 6. 1c | [3 of 7] Box 11 pp.8795-8971 (177 pages) |
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| 6. 1d | [4 of 7] Box 11 pp.8972-9171 (200 pages) |
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| 6. 1e | [5 of 7] Box 11 pp.9172-9328 (157 pages) |
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| 6. 1f | [6 of 7] Box 12 pp.9329-9480 (152 pages) |
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| 6. 1g | [7 of 7] Box 12 pp.9481-9624 (144 pages) |
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| 6. 2 | One file labelled M[althus]'s Indexes containing PJ's work on this subject as well as correspondence with the editor of The Indexer, the Journal of the Society of Indexers. Box 12 pp.9625-9700 (76 pages) |
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7. Miscellaneous Files
| 7. 1 | One file labelled Population Correspondence on Research containing letters from PJ to various scholars, librarians and organisations written in the course of gathering material for her biography of TRM. The file includes the copy of an incomplete TRM letter {L} held by the National Library of Scotland, a letter from Jesus College giving the dates on which TRM signed the "Conclusion Book", correspondence with Jesus College about the Clarke letters they held, letters from PJ concerning the deposit of the diaries of TRM and Harriet's journal in Cambridge, letters to Frida Knight, the author of the standard work on William Frend, TRM's Cambridge tutor, letters to Lady Lyell, the owner of the Horner papers, including copies of letters from Whishaw to Horner and from TRM to Horner, letters to the Nixon-Eckersall family {L}, a long letter from Professor Sir Austin Robinson commenting on the draft of PJ's biography of TRM, some letters to Paul Sturges on Malthus letters PJ had discovered, and some copies of letters to and from John Maynard Keynes (one from James Bonar) written while JMK was composing his biographical study of TRM. Box 12 pp.9701-10250 (549 pages) |
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| 7. 2 | One file labelled Population Malthus - Correspondence on Publication consisting of letters to the publisher, Routledge and Kegan Paul, including lists of corrections and replies to the proof-reader's queries. There are reports on progress to the British Academy, who supported the research, a copy of TRM's family tree, as included in PJ's biography, and letters relating to illustrations used in the book. There is also some correspondence with Cambridge University Press over the travel diaries, including letters from Lord Robbins. Box 13 pp.10251-10601 (351 pages) |
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| 7. 4 | One file labelled Population Variorum -Correspondence on Early Stages, Research including correspondence generated in PJ's search for the authorities cited in the Essay on Population, the correspondence with Cambridge University Press over publication, as well as letters to and from Professor A. M. C. Waterman. There is a long review written by PJ entitled "Malthus Rehabilitated" and her correspondence with John Pullen over a joint review of the Pickering-Chatto edition of the complete works of TRM which appeared in the Economic History Review. Box 13 pp.10798-11094 (296 pages) |
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| 7. 5 | One file labelled Enquiries unanswered - Miscellaneous Malthusiana including notes on demography supplied by Alan Armstrong and on a Scottish libel action at which TRM was present in 1826. There is correspondence with Professor Piero Sraffa agreeing to read the draft of PJ's biography and advising her to contact RM; PJ's letter to Sraffa relates to the "lost" letters now in the Kanto Collection. There are inquiries by PJ concerning archives and letters from Dame Margery Perham reacting to drafts of the biography. Finally, there are photocopies of letters from Fred Lomax to his father {M}. Box 14 pp.11095-11222 (128 pages) |
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| 7. 6 | One file labelled H[istory of] E[conomic] T[hought] - Bath which deals with a conference held there in 1979, during which PJ arranged a trip to Bath Abbey and Claverton, as well as holding a reception to launch her biography. Box 14 pp.11223-11302 (80 pages) |
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| 7. 7 | One file labelled Pullen - Bonar Papers including the photocopy of an original letter by TRM to a bookseller which PJ gave to the library of the University of New England, NSW {L}. There are also copies of the documents and letters relating to TRM's ordination supplied to PJ by John Pullen {M}. Box 14 pp.11303-11331 (29 pages) |
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| 7. 8 | One file labelled Modern Theoretical Economists containing notes and annotated photocopies of the work of twentieth-century interpreters of Malthus and the classical period generally (e.g. D. P. O'Brien, M. Blaug, E. R. A. Seligman, L. Robbins, B. Corry, M. Dobb, G. S. L. Tucker, M. Paglin). Box 14 pp.11332-11526 (195 pages) |
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| 7. 9 | Card files labelled Index to Ricardo Letters for Malthus's Biography consisting of PJ's personal index to Sraffa's edition of Ricardo's works and correspondence. Another set of cards labelled Population References done dealing with TRM's authorities in the Essay on Population. A shorter set of cards labelled Malthus's Bibliography: Princ[iple]s of Pol[itical] Econ[omy] giving references to authorities cited by TRM in the 1820 and 1836 editions of his Principles. A set of cards labelled M[althusl's Colleagues listing the names of colleagues at the East India College. A set of cards labelled Malthus's Pupils in B.M. cat[alogue] showing the published work of TRM's East India Company pupils. Miscellaneous cards dealing with secondary sources. Box 14 pp.11527-11686 (130 pages) |
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| 7. 10 | One file labelled Translations and Miscellaneous! Foreign Enquiries contains correspondence with Phillip Appleman on his anthology of Malthus's writings, an Italian translation of a selection from Malthus's Principles, Frank Fetter's list of economists in parliament, a letter by PJ to an American student giving a brief autobiography, some letters about the travel diaries, some notes on Malthus and the United States, letters to and from Salim Rashid, William Grampp, Jim Potter, and K. Dennis concerning Samuel Bailey, There are some typed "Notes on Malthus and the- United States" compiled by PJ. There is also material on translations and translators of Malthus and Ricardo. Box 14 pp.11687-11853 (167 pages) |
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| 7. 11 | One file labelled Pergamon containing correspondence relating to The Malthus Library Catalogue published by Pergamon, including PJ's criticisms of its inaccuracies, the text of her introduction to the catalogue as well as the contributions of John Harrison, Ryozaburo Minami, John Pullen, and William Petersen. There is also a copy of the microfilm version of the catalogue. Box 15 pp.11854-11977 (124 pages) |
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| 7. 12 | One file labelled John Pullen - Donald Winch containing correspondence with these two scholars, some papers written by John Pullen, PJ's notes on John Pullen's thesis, and the correspondence with John Murray about the TRM letters held by his firm. Box 15 pp.11978-12095 (118 pages) |
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| 7. 13 | An envelope labelled Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences containing the offprint of a pamphlet in Swedish with two photocopies of the same work. Box 15 pp.12096-12143 (48 pages) |
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8. Appendix A
| 8. 1 | Two letters to and from Sydenham Malthus: A letter from Colonel Sydenham Malthus to James Bonar from Dresden, dated March 1, 1886, concerning Ricardo's letters to Malthus that were published by Bonar in 1887, a copy of which has been sent to Professor Satoh. A letter from Charles Kerry to Sydenham Malthus from Upper Stondon Rectory, dated May 28, 1891, enclosing extracts relating to the Malthus family from the Churchwarden's Accounts of St. Lawrence's, Reading, Berkshire. During this period Sydenham Malthus was conducting research of his own into the earlier history of the Malthus family. A copy of this letter has already been sent to Professor Satoh. Box 15 pp.12144-12384 (241 pages) |
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| 8. 2 | Three files of correspondence between PJ and DW, along with other letters, reviews, a photograph, and other papers relating to PJ's life. Box 15 pp.12385-12495 (111 pages) |
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