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Page 1: Marshall Library of Economics · Marshall Library of Economics Austin Robinson Papers Section One Personal and family papers Part 1 Certificates Box 1 1/1/1 Undated Modern typescript

Marshall

Library of

Economics

Austin Robinson

Papers

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Marshall Library of Economics

Austin Robinson Papers

Section One

Personal and family papers

Part 1 Certificates

Box 1

1/1/1 Undated Modern typescript transcription of details of genealogy of

Robinson family from the family Bible

1/1/2

1897 Birth certificate Edward Austin Gossage Robinson

(EAGR)

1/1/3 1993 Recent photocopy 1897 baptism register entry for EAGR

from St Thomas on the Bourne, Surrey

1/1/4 1914-16 3 Oxford and Cambridge Higher Certificate Examination

certificates in envelope

1/1/5 1915 National Registration Certificate

1/1/6 16.12.1916 Telegram EAGR to parents on winning Christ‟s College

Cambridge Scholarship

1/1/7 18.12.1916 Letter E.A. Shipley, Master Christ‟s College, to EAGR‟s

father Albert Gossage Robinson (AGR), congratulating

him on EAGR‟s Scholarship result

1/1/8 1919-20 Record sheet of Greek and Latin authors studied at

Cambridge and before

1/1/9 9.8.1919 Cambridgeshire County Council motor car registration

document for EAGR‟s Morgan, registration number CE

5502

1/1/10 11.7.1922 Letter E.A. Shipley to Albert Gossage Robinson

congratulating him on EAGR winning the Wrenbury Prize

and Queenborough Scholarship

1/1/11 6.7.1926 Marriage certificate EAGR and Joan Violet Maurice,

married at St Matthew‟s Church, Oakley Square, London

N W

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Part 2 First World War Service

1/2/1 2.2.1917 Letter of appointment as Probationary Flight Officer with

Royal Naval Air Service

1/2/2 28.3.1917-

22.4.1919

5 certificates of EAGR‟s war service and conduct at

different locations. Protection certificate on discharge.

1/2/3 12.7.1917 Telegram appointing EAGR to Killingholme, with

envelope

1/2/4 18.3.1918 Times article on British-German seaplane fight in North

Sea

1/2/5 19.3.1918 Authorisation for EAGR to have motorcycle at

Killingholme

1/2/6 25.8.1918 Seaplane receipt form for F3 Flying Boat

1/2/7 7.4.1919 Certificate of cleared liabilities, Central Despatch Pool of

Pilots, RAF

1/2/8 5.1919-

19.2.1924

Naval Prize Fund distribution slips, with earlier

demobilisation notice

1/2/9 1917-19 3 blank railway warrant forms for use by Officers in H.M.

Forces

1/2/10 19.8.1918 Permit authorising purchase of sugar for EAGR

1/2/11 28.12.1918 Pass containing leave ration book

Part 3 Passports, driving licences and ration books

1/3/1-

1/3/10

1932-86 8 British passports and 2 vaccination certificates

1/3/11 c1926 Gwalior State (India) driving licence

1/3/12-

1/3/15

1940-73 4 UK driving licences

1/3/16-

1/3/18

1943-47 3 clothing ration books

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Part 4 Miscellaneous personal papers

1/4/1 1926 Printed invitation to EAGR and J V Maurice‟s wedding

addressed to [Edward] Howard Marsh, brother of JVR‟s

mother, with annotation to „Violet‟ by Helen Maurice

1/4/2 21.6.1943 National Registration Identity Card

1/4/3 7.1942-

7.1943

2 notes of EAGR‟s Ministerial salary

1/4/4 1.10.1948 2 Treasury notes that EAGR travelling to Paris on official

business

1/4/5 1949-50 EAGR membership card of Working Men‟s College as

member of Council

1/4/6 1.3.1950 Agreement between St John‟s College Cambridge and

EAGR for rental of garden near Queen‟s Road Cambridge

1/4/7 1955 RAC Associate membership card

1/4/8 1.11.1918 Official royal document appointing EAGR temporary

Lieutenant in RAF

1/4/9 1.1.1944 Letter enclosing Royal Warrant granting OBE (Civil

Division) to EAGR

1/4/10 20.12.1897

-14.1.1919

2 receipts for investment in Metropolitan Consolidated

Stock, apparently bought by EAGR‟s parents on day after

his birth

1/4/11 Undated 1 typewritten sheet describing terms and conditions of

post of tutor to young Maharaja of Cooch Behar

Part 5 Knighthood and JVR

1/5/1 20.11.74-

4.3.75

Various letters of congratulation on EAGR Knighthood

announced in New Year‟s Honours List 1975

1/5/2 17.3.1962-

10.1985

Folder „Joan‟. Offprints of articles by Joan, published

obituary articles for her and miscellaneous

correspondence. Articles „Cuba and the USA‟ from The

Economic Weekly for 17 March 1962, „Chinese Economic

Policy‟ from Studium Generale for 1970, 2 different drafts

for „Korean Miracle‟ 1964. Obituaries from Indian

Economic Journal and Economic and Political Weekly by

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PR Brahmananda and „AM‟ (Achintya Mukherjee?), text

Ruth Cohen‟s memorial service address. Letter of

condolence Eduard Malinvaud to EAGR, letter re date of

memorial service, copy letters Richard Kahn to Robin

Jeffrey re JVR estate and proposed edition of her works, re

Massachusetts Institute of Technology memorial gift to

RES

Part 6 EAGR’s Diaries

Box 2

1/6/1-

1/6/40

1951-93 40 Cambridge Pocket Diaries (1960-1, 1980-1, 1987-8

missing), giving very brief notes of meetings and

engagements, addresses etc at back. Often almost illegible

Part 7 Biography and autobiography

Box 3

1/7/1 c1990 EAGR rough notes on major aspects of his life, his career

in the 1920‟s, students in 1926-38, Govt. work at Central

Statistical Office, Committee on Economic Information,

list of students 1949-50

1/7/2 c1990 EAGR list of former Marlborough College pupils killed in

1914-18 War

1/7/3 c1990 Notes on part of envelope about 19thC clerics, ancestors?

Of EAGR

1/7/4 c1990 1 p. typescript childhood memories of EAGR by his sister

Margaret (Peggy)

1/7/5 28.7.1991-

16.9.1992

14 letters from Alec Cairncross to EAGR about progress

of biography, [probably an incomplete sequence and have

been separated from draft sections which were originally

enclosed with them]

1/7/6 1991-2 Various draft typescript sections of Cairncross biography,

some with EAGR annotations

1/7/7 14.11.1955

-26.5.1999

Papers deposited by Frances Cairncross in May 1999.

Typescript of first 27 pp EAGR‟s „My Apprenticeship as

an Economist‟, various pages from draft of Cairncross

biography with annotations by EAGR and Cairncross,

letter Tam Dalyell to Alec Cairncross enclosing EAGR

statistical handouts from his 1955-6 Cambridge lectures

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(annotated by Dalyell)

Part 8 Finances

Box 4

1/8/1 1910-72 Small hardback volume (approximately half the pages are

blank, spine mended with elastoplast) listing EAGR‟s

taxable and untaxed income and investment dividends by

financial year

1/8/2 10.1912-

12.1936

Hardback pre-printed personal account book, giving

EAGR‟s annual income/expenditure broken down into

clothes, food etc listed monthly (no entries between

10.1914 and 12.1918)

1/8/3 1937-54 Ditto, with house accounts 1947-53 at back

1/8/4 1954-69 Ditto

1/8/5 1952-58 Personal monthly accounts including cash in hand

1/8/6 1958-64 Ditto

1/8/7 1964-70 Ditto

1/8/8 11.1926-

12.1928

EAGR and JVR Imperial Bank of India Current Account

Book for the period they were in Gwalior

1/8/9 1.2.1925 Receipt for purchase of clothes from Clifton and Sons,

Winchester

1/8/10 3.1925 Receipt for purchase of clothes from Bodger and Co Ltd,

Cambridge

1/8/11 3.1925 Receipt for car repair from Herbert Robinson, Cambridge

1/8/12 8.1926 Valuation of furniture in EAGR‟s room at Corpus Christi

College, Cambridge, made by W. Thompson and Son. 2

similar hand-written lists prepared before EAGR went to

India

1/8/13 5.1932-

5.1943

Statements of royalties payable to EAGR on Structure of

Competitive Industry and Monopoly

1/8/14 1.1933 Letter from the Inland Revenue to EAGR re outstanding

tax liability

1/8/15 6.9.1943 Certificate of Post-War Credit for sum of £65 in favour of

EAGR. [In a wooden frame under glass]

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1/8/16 23.2.1950-

9.3.1950

3 copy letters re transfer of EAGR Equitable Life Policies

from Sidney Sussex College to the University of

Cambridge on his election to a Professorship

1/8/17 30.9.1951 2 certificates for Income Tax Beneficiary of Trust

1/8/18 1.1953 Bill from St Andrew‟s Hospital Northampton for the care

of JVR

1/8/19 c1977 Rough list by EAGR of his dividends and interest 1971-77

1/8/20 2/8/1985-

2/2/1990

Barclays bank statements in bundles, 19/3/1985-2/2/1990

and 14/10/1985-6/7/1989

Part 9 School and University

Box 5

1/9/1 Undated 1 folded page printed Greek text headed “Cedant Arma

Togae”, probably a Cambridge Undergraduate or

Scholarship exam paper

1/9/2 1907-1911 EAGR‟s Classics exercise book, mainly Latin proses and

Greek and Latin grammar, with some loose answer sheets.

Dates from period at Copthorne Preparatory School, near

Crawley, Sussex,

1/9/3 8.2.1909-

12.7.1909

Ditto

1/9/4 27.1.1911-

4.2.1911

Ditto, including Latin sentences

1/9/5 4.1914 Copy of A History of Marlborough College During Fifty

Years, awarded to EAGR as a Form prize at Marlborough

College, Wiltshire

1/9/6 c1980 List of former Marlborough College pupils killed in 1914-

18 war [removed from Marlborough College Register on

shelves in Archives Room]

1/9/7 Undated EAGR 2 pp. Latin and Greek verses addressed to and

marked by Mr Grose (S W Grose, later Praelector of

Christ‟s College Cambridge)

1/9/8 Undated 1 p. printed Latin verse

1/9/9 17.3.1919-

3.3.1920

Printed Cambridge University exam papers for Bell,

Abbott and Barnes scholarship

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1/9/10 13.3.1920-

15.3.1920

and

undated

Printed Classical exam papers for the Christ‟s group of

colleges, Cambridge

1/9/11 27.5.1920 Printed Cambridge Classical Tripos exam paper

1/9/12 1921-1922 4 Milton Society membership cards, EAGR holding

various offices

1/9/13 1922 Membership card for Christ‟s College Cambridge hockey

club, of which EAGR was Captain

1/9/14 c1923 Printed outline for an economics lecture course on

„Theories of Value and Distribution and Money and Public

Finance‟

1/9/15 1924 Printed text In Statu Pupillari, a comic opera by C.L.

Ferguson

1/9/16 10.1923 Folder of EAGR notes taken at Arthur Cecil Pigou‟s

Cambridge Undergraduate lectures on the „Principles of

Economics‟

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Section Two

Personal correspondence

Part 1 Early correspondence

Box 6 1917-1939

2/1/1 5.2.1917? -

13.3.1919

EAGR to his parents and brother Stephen, describing war

service with flying boats. 73 items in approx. date order

2/1/2 24.6.1924-

20.10.1932

Very miscellaneous to EAGR, plus some EAGR letters to

others including JVR. Approx. 43 items.

2/1/3 24.2.1929-

1.1.1931

Letters to EAGR and JVR from the Maharajah of Gwalior

(„George‟ Jivaji Rao Scindia), his sister („Mary‟ Kamla

Raja Scindia), other members of his family, and fellow

pupils in Gwalior. Approx. 32 items

2/1/4 1926-1939 Christmas cards to EAGR and JVR from India, including

official photographs of Maharajah and his sister. 33 items

Box 7 Indian letters (mostly from Gwalior)

2/1/5 17.10.1926

-9.11.1928

EAGR to his mother (Edith Robinson) on journey to India

and from period of tutoring the young Maharajah of

Gwalior. Most in original envelopes. Dated by EAGR in

old age (somewhat inaccurately). 107 items (in two

bundles)

2/1/6 1.12.1927-

20.9.1928

EAGR to his father (Albert Gossage Robinson) from India.

1 letter for Christmas 1927, other on his decision to resign.

2 items

2/1/7 5.7.1928-

28.11.1928

EAGR to JVR after she returned to England. Details of

Indian intrigues and appointment of his successor. 25

items

2/1/8 9.6.1927-

5.4.1928

EAGR to Dorothea Cotter Braithwaite (nee Morison,

known as “Moris”). 3 items, one sent on to her by Philip

Sargant Florence

2/1/9 Undated EAGR to unknown person, stray last page of letter from

India

2/1/10 3.3.1927-

4.10.1927

Letters to EAGR‟s mother, Edith Robinson, about

Gwalior. 3 items, 1 each from Olive Graham, Helen

Maurice and JVR

2/1/11 2.1927 JVR to unknown person, typed 3 pp. description of typical

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day in Gwalior

2/1/12 11.3.1929 Audrey Gibson (nee Wynch) to EAGR and JVR from

Gwalior. 1 item

Box 8 Joan’s letters

2/1/13 7.1928-

c1940

JVR to EAGR, mainly from period after her return from

Gwalior and when EAGR on 1932 African tour. Include

details of her writings in 1932. 40 items. 5 items by JVR

including a poem, to unknown recipients

2/1/14 1925-1928 JVR to Marjorie Violet Matthews (later Sissons). c22

items

2/1/15 11.1926-

3.1928

JVR to Dorothea Cotter Braithwaite (“Moris”). c12 items

2/1/16 1926-1947 Letters to JVR, most from period when in Gwalior. c20

items

2/1/17 c.1930-

1939

Folder “Personal correspondence 1930-1939”. Various

personal letters to both EAGR and JVR. Correspondents

include R F Kahn, J M Keynes, Mary Marshall, Gerald

Shove and several members of EAGR‟s family

2/1/18 12.8.1983-

1984

File of papers re estate of JVR and setting up of Joan

Robinson Trust

Box 9 1931-1939

2/1/19 1931 EAGR personal correspondence, folder almost all from

1931. Odd items to JVR

2/1/20 1931-1933 Papers re trust in favour of Louisa M. Mead, EAGR jury

summons, Marshall Society card, note in Edith Robinson‟s

hand, p.c.of ship Carnarvon Castle

2/1/21 10.1938-

12.1939

Correspondence to EAGR, bills etc. re JVR‟s illness 1938-

9. Letter re estate of late Thomas Robinson (EAGR‟s

uncle), letter re Central Economic Information Service

2/1/22 25.10.1930

-9.11.1931

Folder personal/official correspondence with typed copies

of EAGR‟s replies. Reverse date order, correspondence

with one person not always together

2/1/23 20.7.1933-

22.11.1933

Ditto, labelled “II Private Correspondence etc”

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Part 2 Letters from Africa

Box 10 African letters 1932

2/2/1 20.6.1932-

22.11.1932

Letters from EAGR to JVR and his family, sent from

Africa whilst he was on International Missionary Council

Commission to look at the effects of industrialisation in

the Copper Belt of Northern Rhodesia. Long, descriptive

letters, 22 items as selected by EAGR for later

typing/publication.

2/2/2 1942 „African Letters‟, the typewritten version of above letters

with short introduction by EAGR

2/2/3 25.7.1932-

22.11.1932

Remainder of sequence of Ms letters from EAGR to JVR

from African trip. 21 items

2/2/4 29.4.1940-

18.6.1940

Letters to EAGR from Augustus Robinson and Edith

Robinson, EAGR‟s uncle and aunt. 2 items

Part 3 1940’s correspondence

Box 11 1938-1950

2/3/1 17.7.1938-

3.8.1947

Letters from EAGR to his father, AGR, most in original

envelopes. 6 items in brown envelope annotated by

EAGR

2/3/2 15.12.1940-

25.10.1948

Papers re administration of estate of late William Henry

Robinson, for which EAGR was executor, on treasury tag.

Loose papers re estates of Edith R, Thomas R and WHR.

Left as found

2/3/3 30.6.1944-

31.11.1944

Folder “Private. Personal letters to and from Joan”. Also

incorrectly dated 1945 by EAGR. Correspondence largely

from period when EAGR was in Washington to discuss

mutual aid for „Stage Two‟, the war against Japan. Ms

draft EAGR letter to JVR re possibility of his accepting

Chair of Colonial Economics at Oxford, 3 letters JVR to

EAGR, EAGR letter to secretaries at Ministry of

Production from Washington, 2 letters from secretary

„Phil‟ re desire to change job and from Bryn Thring on

events in the office. Letter Augustus Robinson to EAGR.

Typescript note to EAGR re economic statisticians, note

from Dennis H Robertson re attached pamphlet criticising

the Madge Enquiry on National Savings, note on summary

of munitions agreements by EAGR returned to him by J M

Keynes, note J M Keynes to EAGR re G Findley Shirras

article for „Economic Journal‟

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2/3/4 24.9.1945-

26.7.1946

File “Private Correspondence”. Incoming letters and

copies EAGR replies, filed in reverse date order

2/3/5 17.7.1947-

30.7.1948

File “Mr Robinson‟s Personal Correspondence” (42 in red

pencil). As above, includes letter from AGR

2/3/6 25.5.1949-

24.3.1950

Loose correspondence, mainly re academic matters,

includes some copy correspondence. Not in date order.

Includes Ms transcriptions from Bank of England records

re Bank Act 1844 in an unknown hand

2/3/7 2.7.1944-

10.7.1944

2 letters from JMK to EAGR and EAGR to JMK

concerning United Nations Monetary and Financial

conference

Box 12 1933-1949

2/3/8 6.1933-

1948

Letters of condolence to William Henry Robinson on death

of sister Maud R [not on family tree I have, possibly Edith

known as Maud], 10 items, later family letters to WHR,

will of WHR and letters re estate to EAGR as executor.

2/3/9 17.9.1940-

17.3.1949

EAGR miscellaneous correspondence, much from war

work, including congratulations on OBE.

2/3/10 1941-1948 EAGR financial matters including mother‟s estate (Edith

Robinson nee Sidebotham)

2/3/11 1941-1949 EAGR personal correspondence including from parents.

Arranged alphabetically. 1 folder

2/3/12 1946 Semi-official file on publication of JM Keynes last article

on US balance of payments. 2 files on treasury tags

2/3/13 1.1.1947-

28.1.1949

Letters of congratulation on award of Companion of the

Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and St George

(CMG). 63 items including official notification and family

letters. Later letter of thanks from Stafford Cripps for work

on preparation of OEEC Report

2/3/14 5.1926-

7.1945

Letters EAGR to JVR including from Russia/Germany

1945. 7 items

2/3/15 1940 Semi-official file on state of health/employment prospects

of James Meade

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Part 4 1950’s and 1960’s correspondence

Box 13 1946 -1954

2/4/1 c1946 -

1974

Folder labelled “Some kind remarks and oddments”.

Includes EAGR autobiographical notes and letters from

Joyce Baird and Ann and Barbara.

2/4/2 9.1949-

11.1951

Correspondence and papers re estate of late Albert G

Robinson and his Memorial Service, also dispersal of the

Louisa Mead Trust on her death

2/4/3 1950 Congratulations on Professorship at Cambridge, 35 items,

including official notification from the Vice-Chancellor.

[Sorted alphabetically as far as possible]

2/4/4 1950-1959 Personal correspondence and re election of master of

Sidney Sussex 1956-7

2/4/5 1950-1990 Personal correspondence very varied. Left as found

2/4/6 1950-1993 Personal correspondence, not in folders

2/4/7 c-1951-

1955

Semi-official correspondence, including OEEC and Table

Ronde des problemes de l‟Europe

2/4/8 1953-1954 File of correspondence re trip to East Africa (Uganda) in

1954

2/4/9 14.7.1953-

1.10.1984

Letters Joyce Baird to EAGR. 34 items. [JB looked

through these after deposit - not known if any destroyed].

1 letter Elizabeth Henderson to EAGR

Box 14 1958-1970

2/4/10 12.1.1967-

18.12.1967

Folder “EAGR Personal 1967” Various personal

correspondence and copy correspondence to and by from

1967. Also invitations and EAGR responses.

2/4/11 22.9.1958-

18.12.1968

Folder “EAGR Personal 1968” Various correspondence

and copy correspondence mostly from 1968. Many

personal letters of response to correspondence by EAGR.

Also invitations and EAGR‟s response.

2/4/12 11.10.1968-

5.1.1970

Folder “EAGR Personal 1969” Various letters, personal

and non-work related professional correspondence

2/4/13 28.7.1964-

8.12.1966

Folder “EAGR general advice, invitations to conferences,

societies, etc 1965-1966” General personal correspondence

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Part 5 1970s correspondence

Box 15 1969-1975

2/5/1 4.12.1969-

31.12.1970

Folder “EAGR Personal 1970” Folder of correspondence.

Some personal and some professional. Including “Some

personal reminiscences of Alfred Marshall” by C W

Guillebaud (22nd

May 1970)

2/5/2 5.1.1971-

14.12.1971

Folder “Personal 1971” Various personal correspondence

and copy correspondence

2/5/3 19.12.1971-

11.12.1972

Folder “EAGR Personal 1972” Various personal

correspondence and copy correspondence. Including

letters to the Dean of Winchester from EAGR about a gift

to the Cathedral to commemorate his parents (inscribed

cruet set). Photographs of silverware.

2/5/4 22.2.1971-

15.1.1974

Folder “EAGR Personal 1973” Correspondence and copy

correspondence mostly from 1973

Box 16 1974-1980

2/5/5 9.12.1974-

7.8.1975

Folder “Personal 1975” Various personal correspondence

from 1975. Correspondents include Alec Cairncross and

Joyce Baird

2/5/6 21.12.1974 “Telegrams 1975” 1p paper detailing a telegram sent to

the Chairman of the University Grants Commission,

Bangladesh

2/5/7 22.9.1975-

21.5.1979

“Personal correspondence”. Various personal

correspondence and copy correspondence to and from

EAGR

2/5/8 21.4.1976-

12.1.1980

Folder of personal correspondence. Various

correspondents including Christopher Robinson, Alec

Cairncross, Richard Khan and many others

Part 6 1980s and 1990s correspondence

Box 17 1971-1984

2/6/1 8.6.1971-

31.1.1984

Folder “Personal correspondence 1981” Actually covers

1971-1984. Correspondence and copy correspondence

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Box 18 1979-1991

2/6/2 14.8.1979-

13.3.1991

Folder “EAGR Personal”, mainly from 1985-1989.

Largely copy correspondence with former colleagues and

family, including to Lord [Edwin] Plowden re drafts of

autobiography, David Collard re Cambridge Economics in

1922, re reprint of Bellerby „A Contributive Society‟,

personal references and re memorial service for Bishop

Christopher Robinson in Cambridge and publication of „A

First Sight of Germany‟ by EAGR. EAGR typescripts

„What remains of “full-cost pricing”‟, „Bangladeshi

Economics Comes of Age‟, „Sixty Six Years of

Economics‟ for Economist article, foreword for „A

Contributive Society‟

Box 19 1983-1986

2/6/3 18.10.1983-

27.3.1986

Folder “Personal 1984”. Actually 1983-1986. Various

correspondence and copy correspondence

Box 20 1982-1992

2/6/4 19.5.1982-

16.10.1992

Folder “Personal Economics”. Copy correspondence with

some incoming. Includes typescript EAGR “Cambridge

Economics in the Post-Marshallian Period” for Marshall

Centenary Volume and many EAGR reminiscences, to

Angus Deaton re Richard Stone, Luigi Pasinetti re Kahn,

Paul Samuelson re Cambridge Circus, David Blake re

Gwalior memories. [mostly from 1990-1992]

2/6/5 19.3.1991-

17.5.1991

Folder “Letters to Alec Cairncross. Biography”

Correspondence from various people including Cairncross

and Baird, concerning Cairncross‟ biography of EAGR

2/6/6 7.10.1987-

16.10.1992

Folder “Personal”. Largely copy correspondence EAGR to

daughters Barbara and Ann and families, Peggy Robinson,

his solicitor, financial adviser and doctor

Part 7 Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 21

2/7/1 16.12.1938-

?

Folder “Miscellaneous (Not Journal)” Various

correspondence including a letter from David Butt at the

Home Office concerning EAGR report to the Government

of Pakistan (21/5/1952). Correspondence to and from

Dennis Robertson (Jan 1954). Various correspondence to

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J H Willits

2/7/2 15.1.1945-

27.2.1945

Folder “Correspondence re Cambridge etc” Various

letters from EAGR‟s period of government service

2/7/3 Various

dates

Folder “Interesting letters” Letters from RC Trees of the

Royal Economic Society concerning EAGR‟s part in

presenting a set of the “Works of Ricardo” to Princess

Anne (1977). Letters to and from Hugh Gaitskell (Jan

1958). Letter of sympathy to Geoffrey Keynes on the

death of his mother from EAGR and GK‟s response (Feb

1958). Copy of letter to FR Leavis on use of lecture

rooms (12/9.1956). Sensitive letters concerning AY

Nehru (1957). Other correspondents include Sir Harold

Hartley, J H Willits, Leon Motchane, Alec Cairncross, D

B Copland, Sir Robert Sinclair, Dennis Healey and Hugh

Dalton

Box 22

2/7/4 16.2.1940-

22.9.1961

Folder „Monopoly and Structure of Competitive Industry‟.

Correspondence between EAGR and publisher James Nisbet re reprints,

revisions, translations of and royalties from EAGR Cambridge Economic

Handbooks. Also one letter re abstract of EAGR „Economic

Consequences of the Size of Nations‟

2/7/5 18.1.1951-

4.10.1960

Folder “Notes on Foreign Books. Minkes, Prais, “ Various letters

concerning the review of French and German writings for the Economic

Journal. Many letters to and from A L Minkes

2/7/6 30.1.1955-

17.6.1956

Folder „Martineau‟. Correspondence re access to remaining Harriet

Martineau papers by R K Webb from Columbia University.

Correspondents include Nancy Maurice, William Gossage, Jack and

Richard Martineau

2/7/7 29.7.63-

2.12.63

Envelope “Copies of letters sent to EAGR…..”. Official, concerning

Economic Journal. Very varied. A few personal air mail concerning trip

to India

2/7/8 23.12.1969-

5.5.1975

Folder „Skidelsky‟. Correspondence about Robert Skidelsky‟s proposed

biography of JM Keynes and conditions of access to Keynes papers.

Correspondents include Milo Keynes, Richard Kahn, Geoffrey Keynes

and Harold Macmillan. Also correspondence re American reprint by

Sidorsky of Keynes „The End of Laissez Faire‟

2/7/9 11.2.1970-

4.8.1990

Folder “Keynes general correspondence”. Various letters and papers

concerning the publication of Keynes‟ edition

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2/7/10 17.12.1970-

12.6.1990

Folder “Macmillan Keynes and Keynes”. Various letters and papers

concerning the publication of Keynes‟ works

2/7/11 12.9.1973-

14.3.1975

Folder “Professor EAG Robinson Personal File”. Much correspondence

and copy correspondence to and from EAGR. Mostly from 1974

2/7/12 14.5.1975-

26.6.1975

Folder “Einzig”. Letters concerning Richard Einzig‟s wish for his father,

Paul Einzig‟s papers to be housed at Cambridge

2/7/13 3.7.1975-

30.7.1975

Folder “Stopford‟s letters. Letters to and from EAGR and Robert Stopford

concerning Keynes‟ papers. Also included some letters and statistical

information from J M Keynes

2/7/14 20.10.1985-

8.8.1990

Folder “D. Moggridge”. 4 letters concerning Don Moggridge‟s works on

Keynes

Part 8 Copy correspondence

Box 23

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/1 15.1.1976-

17.6.1977

Copy EAGR correspondence re IEA, RES Keynes Edition,

academic references, conferences, seaplanes etc. Copy

Report on Iranian Energy Policies 1976. Reverse date

order

Box 24

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/2 20.6.1977-

21.5.1979

Copy EAGR correspondence. Includes EAGR report on

Bangladesh Budget July 1977

Box 25

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/3 29.5.1979-

12.12.1980

Copy EAGR correspondence

Box 26

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/4 25.11.1980-

16.10.1982

Copy EAGR correspondence

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Box 27

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/5 14.5.1982-

4.8.1984

Copy EAGR correspondence

Box 28

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/6 10.8.1984-

5.8.1986

Copy EAGR correspondence

Box 29

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/7 23.5.1986-

20.7.1988

“EAGR letters Sept 1986-July 1988” File of copy

correspondence which has been removed from a ring

binder. Personal correspondence including several

concerning the death of EAGR‟s brother Christopher. Also

many letters to other academics on economics subjects.

Many letters relating to publications concerning JMK.

Box 30

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/8 20.5.1988-

16.6.1990

Copy EAGR correspondence

Box 31

Copy correspondence (removed from unknown number of ring binders)

2/8/9 1.6.1990-

20.12.1991

Copy EAGR correspondence

2/8/10 3.1.1992-

16.10.1992

Copy EAGR correspondence

Part 9 Correspondence from EAGR’s desk (mainly financial correspondence)

Box 32

2/9/1 4.3.1966-

2.11.1991

EAGR personal correspondence, left as found, including

RES meeting papers and re publications, Marshall

Conference 1990, some late autobiographical notes

Box 33

2/9/2 15.11.1944-

6.4.1993

EAGR personal correspondence, largely on economic

matters. Left as found

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Box 34

2/9/3 15.6.1971-

15.3.1993

Correspondence from desk, including re death of

Christopher Robinson

2/9/4 c1948-1993 Personal correspondence including Alec Cairncross re

biog., re WW1 seaplanes, some from family.

2/9/5 c1960s-

1970s

General financial papers

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Section Three

Cambridge University Career

Part 1 Economics Faculty Papers

Box 35

3/1/1

11.1937 Report on Economics Faculty Questionnaire on teaching

prepared by Marshall Society.

3/1/2 c1944-1989 Loose papers on setting up DAE and minutes of

Committee of management, teaching of Sociology, list of

publications by Faculty members. Possibly removed from

folders

3/1/3 25.1.1951-

20.7.1960

Envelope file labelled “EAGR Faculty”. Mainly

correspondence, including re DAE research projects,

lecture schedules, appointments. Out of any order possibly

previously weeded

3/1/4 21.10.1961-

15.1.1963

File labelled “Faculty 1962+”. EAGR as Chairman of

Faculty. Faculty Board and Degree committee papers,

examiner‟s reports. Reverse date order

3/1/5 22.1.1963-

21.12.1964

Ditto 1963-4.

Box 36

3/1/6 1933-1992 Modern folder “Faculty”, containing oddments which may

have been sent to Alec Cairncross. Marshall Society cards,

menus 1933-5, Faculty dinner to EAGR 1934, syllabus

EAGR 1933 lectures, list Overseas Studies seminars

c.1960, rough notes on Kahn, Faculty questionnaire 1992,

notes on speech for 90th

birthday for the Faculty

3/1/7 1.5.1942-

13.6.1945

Modern envelope file “Beginnings of DAE” containing

correspondence file sent by Keynes to EAGR in 1942 for

him to prepare scheme, outline of DAE research

programme 1945

3/1/8 7.1946-

2.1947

Tripos Reform Committee, notes on meetings,

recommendations to Faculty Board (removed from

unlabelled springback folder)

3/1/9 5.10.1949-

28.9.1951

Papers re proposed extension of DAE building and

application to Nuffield Foundation for funding.

Incomplete draft letter re Prof. of Industrial Relations

3/1/10 19.5.1952- Correspondence and meeting papers for Faculty Board,

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28.4.1953 Degree and Tripos Reform committees

3/3/11 c1950-1953 Loose papers, mainly Faculty Board and Degree

Committee, but also Report of Tripos Reform Comm,

1953 Conference of lecturers, report on training of

agricultural economists. Left as found

Part 2 Committee for the Sidgwick Avenue site –EAGR a member

Box 37

3/2/1 1.11.1961-

9.2.1961

Folder “Sidgwick 1961”. Mainly correspondence re Ec.

Fac. building and furnishings, also plans for Marshall Lib

magazine benches, some committee papers.

3/2/2 30.4.1962-

16.12.1963

“Sidgwick 1962”, mainly meeting papers, also

correspondence re Rockefeller funding of

Cambridge/Makerere, Kampala post

3/2/3 23.6.1959-

22.11.1960

Labelled “Sidgwick 1963”, but mostly earlier material.

Correspondence re Mitchell Hall controversy, notes about

Economics Faculty furniture/fittings

3/2/4 c1949-1987 Large bundle loose papers of Syndicate/Committee on

Sidgwick site. Minutes, correspondence, reports 1949-,

including 1956, 1987 RIBA article

Box 38

3/2/5 16.8.1951-

26.10.1959

“Sidgwick Avenue Site 1959”. Very largely

correspondence re development of site, some meeting

papers

3/2/6 c1961-2 “Sidgwick 1964”. Plans and elevations of site,

correspondence, most re problems of new Economics

Faculty building

3/2/7 12.5.1964-

14.1.1966

“Sidgwick 1964-6”. Minutes and correspondence

3/2/8 c1960-1 Unlabelled folder. Site plan, elevations of lecture block,

leaflets and correspondence re furniture for Economics

common room. [Damaged by water]

3/2/9 21.2.1963-

26.6.1963

3 loose items. Letter Roy Harrod to EAGR re RES

business, copies EAGR notes on stipend of DAE Director

and furnishing of Economics Faculty.

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Part 3 EAGR Sidney Sussex College papers

Box 39

Frances Willmoth discarded printed material which was not annotated.

3/3/1 1933-1964 Printed College accounts with EAGR annotations (series

incomplete)

3/3/2 1933-1979 Various College accounts - stocks, estimated revenue,

general capital, cash reconciliation - and EAGR notes

3/3/3 11.7.1938-

18.11.1987

Correspondence re college, mainly financial. 5 items

3/3/4 25.10.1954-

30.9.1963

Folder „Coffee Pot Fund‟. Correspondence and list of

donations for T Knox Shaw coffee pot 1960, also re

potential students

3/3/5 10.1963-

6.10.1972

Folder „Sidney Sussex College‟. College Council meeting

papers, draft accounts 1963, correspondence including re

University Challenge TV programme, proposals for

Honorary Fellowships, CV for Ajit Singh

3/3/6 12.1968-

21.1.1983

Folder “Sidney Finances”. Various financial documents

for the College

Box 40

3/3/7 Undated 2 pp EAGR notes on genealogy of family of James

Montague, first Master of Sidney Sussex College

Cambridge

3/3/8 1933-1965 Oddments. 2 printed charts of Undergraduate members of

Sidney Sussex, committee agenda, pay rates for teaching,

paper by EAGR on new Master, job descriptions for

College Fellowships in Economics

3/3/9 21.11.1938-

20.2.1962

Folder „Sidney Sussex‟. General correspondence including

re potential students and Fellows, College portraits and

restoration of Hall, T Knox Shaw retirement gift of silver

coffee set, sorting of the library, DAE 1951 survey of

student income and expenditure, election of new Master

1958. EAGR served two years as Vice Master circa June

1957. One copy letter to Christopher Robinson re

Chaplaincy

3/3/10 1938-1977 Folder headed “College”. EAGR College bills, various re

history of College, membership card Amalgamation Club,

Menu cards Commemoration of Benefactors and 2

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Dinners for EAGR

3/3/11 1939-c1962 Reports on college business written by EAGR (or as

member of committee) - on effects of reduction in number

of students on college finances, Master‟s stipend,

Committee on Fellowships, Committee on revision of

College Statutes, decoration of Master‟s Lodge

3/3/12 1944-1945 Folder labelled “Cambridge 1944”. Report on „College

Finances after the War‟ by John Maynard Keynes and 2

others, estimate of Sidney Sussex accounts after War, note

on University Stipends, notes on Tripos reform by Gerald

Shove and Reddaway

3/3/13 c1952-1962 EAGR memo to syndicate on relationship between

University and Colleges, written when Chair of Faculty

Board

3/3/14 ?1953 EAGR speech notes proposing health of College Boat

Club

3/3/15 22.12.1964-

23.7.1968

Folder „Sydney [sic] Sussex College 1965‟. General

correspondence, including re appointment of College

Bursar and Economics teachers, invitations to

Commemoration Dinners, appeal for new building, visit of

Roy Strong to see College portraits. MS and typescript of

EAGR „Note on College Finances‟

Part 4 Papers relating to teaching

Box 41

3/4/1 8.1946 Marshall Society “Report on the Economics Faculty

Questionnaire” re Tripos to Faculty Board

3/4/2 1925-1961 Miscellaneous - list „Alternative College Quotas‟, Printed

Tripos Regulations, book lists, syllabus EAGR course on

Economic Problems of British Empire, syllabus EAGR

economics course for science students, minutes of Faculty

discussion on Tripos Reform, papers re reform of Diploma

in Economics

3/4/3 Undated EAGR note on Cambridge Course on Development for

Overseas Studies Committee

3/4/4 7.1.1960

and undated

EAGR lecture notes on market system and for overseas course, draft of

his obituary of Dennis Robertson for “Times” and letter from Patrick

Wilkinson about it

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3/4/5 1923-1930 Draft and printed exam papers, annotated by EAGR.

Sorted by exam and date. Duplicates discarded

3/4/6 1929-1965 Exam papers, reports on candidates and other notes

Box 42

3/4/7 1928-1933 EAGR examiner for Economics paper at Royal Military

College, Sandhurst. Correspondence, exam papers and

reports

3/4/8 1929-1932 Attendance sheets for EAGR Cambridge lectures giving

names and colleges

3/4/9 1932 2 exam scripts of Sir Marcus Joseph Sieff, Economics

Tripos Part I, when he gained a First Class.

3/4/10 1949 Reports by EAGR and another on Ian S. Lloyd‟s PhD

dissertation on Growth of Rolls Royce.

3/4/11 1961-1968 Diploma in Development Economics. Reports,

correspondence, exam papers, marks of 1967 candidates.

Also mark books for Part II Economics Tripos and

Diploma in Economics 1956, 1961 and 1962.

3/4/12 23.6.1969-

24.1.1970

Folder of correspondence and papers relating to UCLES

Business Studies A level

Part 5 General University Papers

Box 43

3/5/1 c1924 Cambridge Union Society Investigation Groups, 2

different interim reports of no. 1 group “The Future of

Education”. EAGR was Chairman of the group, which

investigated Cambridge University in the light of the

Report of the Royal Commission on the Universities.

Shorter report annotated in ink by EAGR

3/5/2 14.3.1951-

10.11.1955

Correspondence EAGR as member of Cambridge

University Press Syndicate re proposed „Cambridge

History of India‟ volume for 1918-1947 [returned from

BLPES as not RES]

3/5/3 25.2.1965-

29.3.1971

Folder „Visitors 1965‟. Correspondence re visit of Harold

Macmillan to the Sidgwick Site May 1965 and re visiting

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academics

3/5/4 9.8.1966-

31.10.1969

Folder „Diploma in Development Economics‟.

Correspondence EAGR with Z Aubrey Silberston as

Faculty Board Chairman re proposed changes to Diploma

Course, general correspondence with students and

prospective students, printed course regulations 1966 and

1968. EAGR draft examiners‟ report 1967, lecture list

3/5/5 2.1.1951-

10.12.1959

Folder “Cambridge University Press”. Various

correspondence mostly regarding the CUP and the

publication of different works

3/5/6 24.1.1961-

9.3.1966

Folder “Afro-Asian”. Various letters and agendas of

meetings concerning the African Studies Centre at

Cambridge

3/5/7 11.3.1971-

7.9.1971

Folder “Defence Study Group”. Notes on the meeting of

the Defence Study Group in Cambridge on 7/8 January

1971. It is a joint group of Cambridge University and the

Ministry of Defence

Box 44

3/5/8 5.3.1953-

1.1.1957

Folder “Industrial Research Group 1953-1956”. Much

varied correspondence, some relating to the Faculty of

Economics and the Industrial Research Group

3/5/9 6.10.1955-

2.7.1963

Folder „Industrial Research Group Publications‟.

Correspondence re submission to Board of Trade and

publication by George Allen and Unwin Ltd of „An

Inquiry into the Relative cost and Productivity Levels in

Britain and Certain Other Selected Economies‟. This US

Conditional Aid funded research project by Elvin

Thorgerson was supervised by EAGR. Also Royalties

Accounts for „Effects of Mergers‟, another project

3/5/10 7.2.63-

30.7.65

Folder “Overseas Studies Committee – 1963”

Correspondence EAGR concerning the establishment of a

Certificate of Development Economics by the Faculty

Board of Economics and Politics. Minutes of Overseas

Studies Committee to discuss Certificate of Development

Economics. 1963. Also correspondence between EAGR

and LP Singh to discuss Venkataraman and Prasad as

students

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3/5/11 1.10.68-

17.12.68

Folder “Centre of International Studies (Cambridge) –

Cttee of Management”. Copy correspondence EAGR to

C. Parry re visiting Fellowship scheme. 1968

3/5/12 8.2.1974-

13.8.1976

Folder “Cambridge University Press 1974-5”. Various

correspondence between EAGR and the CUP concerning

publications including the Ricardo series

3/5/13 30.1.1961-

20.11.1962

Folder “Overseas Studies Committee 1960-62”. Mostly

agendas of meetings of the Overseas Studies Committee

from 1961-62

Box 45

3/5/14 29.10.63-

29.11.63

Folder “London and Cambridge Economic Service 1963”

Financial details of the service for 1963. Schedule of

meeting

3/5/15 30.1.64-

30.12.71

Folder “London and Cambridge Economic Service 1964-“

Editorial details and schedules of publication. Minutes of

meetings. Correspondence to and from EAGR giving

editorial comments

3/5/16 30.5.1938-

3.11.1955

Folder “London and Cambridge Economic Service”.

Agendas of meetings of the service; various

correspondence concerning the business of the service and

some statistical information

3/5/17 17.2.56-

30.1.64

Folder “London and Cambridge Economic Service”

Correspondence to and from EAGR on editorial and

management details of the service from 1956-1964.

Schedules and minutes of meetings. Copy of article on

“International Finance” by S J Wells

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Section Four

Speech and lecture notes

Part 1 Speech notes

Box 46

4/1/1 Not dated „Economic Consequences of the Size of Nations‟

4/1/2 Not dated On Pakistan 5 year plan

4/1/3 Undated „What makes a country grow‟ on Indian Planning

Commission paper

4/1/4 Undated „Long Term and Short-term‟ on energy, found with above

4/1/5 Undated On growth

4/1/6 Undated Indian energy notes

4/1/7 c1933 On problems of rapid industrialisation in N Rhodesia and

Katanga

4/1/8 c1946 „Changes in Economic Thought‟ (?) to accountants

4/1/9 c1948-9 „J.M.K.‟ (before death of JN Keynes)

4/1/10 c1949 „Development in Pakistan‟

4/1/11 c1949 Christ‟s College Cambridge Commemoration Dinner

4/1/12 1950 „J.M.K‟

4/1/13 11.1950 On economic relations between UK and Commonwealth,

at Chatham House? ODI

4/1/14 c1951-1959 „NATO III. International Economics‟, 1951 with later stats

4/1/15 1952 „Cambridge Mission to Delhi Centenary‟

4/1/16 c1952 3 lectures on prediction and economic models, possibly at

LSE

4/1/17 4.4.1952 „How Britain Met her Economic Crisis‟ in Karachi

4/1/18 25.6.1953-

17.7.1953

and undated

Reports of others‟ talks at conference on US trade, and

note by Richard M. Bissell on Regional Trade

Liberalization and Dollar Trade

4/1/19 9.11.1954- „Pricing of Nationalised Industries‟ to BOAC senior staff,

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14.3.1955 with correspondence arranging talk

4/1/20 1955 or

later

„The Atom Conference‟ speaking in Cambridge

4/1/21 7.12.1955 School prize giving in King‟s Lynn (King?) Edward VII

High School

4/1/22 c1956 „Atomic Energy‟ after opening of Calder Hall

4/1/23 25.6.1956 „Notions of General Economics‟ at NATO „Defence

College‟, Paris

4/1/24 25.6.1956 „Notions of Finances‟ same meeting

4/1/25 26.6.1956 „Notions of International Economics‟ same meeting

4/1/26 1.1957 „Ec[onomic] Research and Ec[onomic] Development‟ in

Karachi

4/1/27 c1958 On Gross National Product, to Imperial Defence College

4/1/28 1958 or

later

„Table Ronde‟ Conference on European Energy Policy

4/1/29 28.1.1960 Economics. An approach to the Subject‟, at Imperial

Defence College [date not on notes, but was in diary in

Box 2]

4/1/30 4.1960 „Foreign trade and Economic Development‟, possibly

given in Manila

4/1/31 ?1960/1966 General notes from trip to Rhodesia/Nyasaland, possibly

some for talk

4/1/32 ?1961 „Addis Ababa Lecture 2‟ on Growth and Take Off.

Possibly later, but was IEA conference there in 1961

4/1/33 9.1.1963 „Energy Supplies and Economic Growth‟, given in Delhi

4/1/34 18.2.1964 „Indian Energy Survey‟, given at Overseas Development

Institute, „amended for Glasgow 1965‟, plus loose notes

4/1/35 29.11.1964-

7.12.1964

Short speech at IEA meeting at Ploudiv, Bulgaria, on

Economic Development of European Socialist Countries

4/1/36 1965 or

later

On his retirement from Faculty of Economics, Cambridge

4/1/37 28.6.1962 On visit of Harold and Dorothy Macmillan to the Sidgwick

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Site and Faculty of Economics and Politics

Box 47

4/1/38 c1966 On urban planning and Doxiadis project, given in Detroit

4/1/39 c1967 „Imperial Defence College‟ on current economic

influences

4/1/40 22.2.1967 „Some Thoughts on Monopoly‟, 2nd annual Scottish

Economic Society Lecture, given at University of

Edinburgh, published in Scottish Journal of Political

Economy, vol. 14 (1967)

4/1/41 1967 or

later

„An Equitable Distribution of Industrial Development‟

4/1/42 5.1967 „Energy Problems of U.K.‟ to M.O.P. [Ministry of Power]

staff

4/1/43 8.1967 or

later

„ASEAN Co-operation‟

4/1/44 11.1967 „Teaching of Economics in Pakistan‟ at Glasgow

4/1/45 1968 On Golden Jubilee of Indian Economic Association,

possibly in Bombay

4/1/46 c1968 On fuel policy, given at Centre for Administrative Studies

4/1/47 5.1968 „Guessing the Growth of Cities. Detroit 2000‟, given at

Trinity Hall

4/1/48 28.12.1968-

30.12.1968

On problems of teaching economics, given at Hyderabad,

IEA meeting

4/1/49 c.1969 „On Guessing the Sizes of Towns and the Functions of

City Centres‟, re Doxiadis and Detroit

4/1/50 10.1969 „Business Studies‟ on A level working party, given at

Marlborough College

4/1/51 1969-1970 To Business Studies A level teachers

4/1/52 c1970 „Toronto‟ on changes in Economics, Keynsian economics

4/1/53 c1970 On Indian energy to MOD staff

4/1/54 c1970 „Indian Development and Employment‟

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4/1/55 29.10.1970 „ASEAN countries‟ at Glasgow

4/1/56 c1970-1972 On economic co-operation, apparently in an ASEAN

country

4/1/57 15.1.1971 Farewell dinner as Secretary of RES

4/1/58 15.1.1971 „Speech at Farewell Dinner‟ as RES Secretary (typed text

in another box)

4/1/59 c1973 „Teaching of Economics in Schools‟, inside published

pamphlet same title

4/1/60 4.1973 „Economic Co-operation of Independent Sovereign

nations‟ at Canberra University

4/1/61 c1974 To Confraternitas Historica, at Sidney Sussex College,

about his work as an economist

4/1/62 2.1974 „Evaluation of Multinational Projects and the Basis of a

Policy for their Establishment in Developing Countries‟ at

Vienna

4/1/63 c1975 On recent work in development

4/1/64 11.1975 On 3rd world development, to MOD staff

4/1/65 c1976 „Editing Keynes‟

4/1/66 31.10.1977 „Energy Problems of the Third World‟ at „Cavendish‟,

possibly Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

4/1/67 11.1978 On appropriate technology, to Dennis Robertson Society

4/1/68 c1979-1981 „Appropriate Technologies‟, at an evening talk

4/1/69 13.6.1979 „The Economic Constraints on Defence Policy‟, to RAF at

Madingley Hall

4/1/70 11.1979 “Sidney Economists”

4/1/71 16.7.1983 Centenary Dinner for JM Keynes, King‟s College

4/1/72 c1984 On Cambridge Economics as he first knew it, at Sidney

Sussex College (?) for his 85th birthday

4/1/73 6.2.1986 „The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the General

Theory‟, possibly notes as used in tape-recorded seminar

in Cambridge (2 tapes in box?)

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4/1/74 5.1986 „Economics of a Subordinate Economy‟, Development

Group Cambridge, reusing Delhi IEA notes Dec 1985

Part 2 Lecture Notes

Box 48

4/2/1 Undated No title. Diagrams and statistics, text on localisation of

industry (full notes, in ink)

4/2/2 Undated Folder entitled “LOCALISATION”. Much about power

and transport

4/2/3 Undated File of notes on Germany after 2nd World War, possibly

originally for 1946-7 Problems of Industry and Trade

course

4/2/4 1927-1939 No title. Notes on External economics, location and

localisation, economics of large scale, national dividend,

efficiency, specialisation, rationalisation, recruitment,

optimum firm and risks and fluctuations, interference in

industry. Note of Marshall Society visit 1939

4/2/5 c1.1930-

3.1930

Notes on “Transport”. First 20 sheets are reused from

student signing-in sheets c1929. EAGR lectured on

“Power Transport and Localization” for first time Lent

Term 1930

4/2/6 c1930-1931 Notes on “Shipping”, including typed reports from

Chamber of Shipping of UK 1931

4/2/7 c1930-1933 Undated notes on “Money” in six sections. EAGR taught

revision courses on “Money Banking and International

Trade” Easter Terms 1930-3

4/2/8 c1934-1937 Notes on “Coal”. EAGR lectured on “The Coalmining

Industry” Michaelmas and Lent Terms 1934-9. Last stats.

In notes 1937

Box 49

4/2/9 1934-1940 Reused folder “Coal lectures in 1930‟s”. Large number of

notes in one series. Includes lists of students and memo of

evidence of Ernest Gowers to Commission (WH

Beveridge‟s copy). EAGR gave lectures on coal-mining

industry 1934-1940

4/2/10 20.3.1940- Problems of British Economy course, including EAGR

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1946 War Cabinet note on Composition of Foreign Investments

4/2/11 c1945 or

later

“Future of British standard of life”

4/2/12 Undated “Future of monopoly”

4/2/13 c1946-1963 Unlabelled folder of statistics up to 1964 on consumption

of energy, world trade, exports; seminar notes on

“Development plans” from Diploma Course 1966-7; notes

on demand and cost (post 1945?, Industry course), “Last

Lecture Lent 1960” and ditto Michaelmas 1958, Lent 1962

on British Foreign Exchange Earnings; notes on possible

results of joining Common Market and on morning after

rejection Jan 1963

Box 50

4/2/14 1947 Reused folder “Lectures 1947” for May Term course on

“Problems of Industry and Trade” (Some notes refer to a 2

term course). [Better labelled than most notes]

4/2/15 4.5.1948-

c1950

No title. Notes on external trade, G.N.P., levels of

industries and re-distribution of manpower, future of

British economy, Economic Survey 1949, investment,

Japan, post-war economic policy, European problems.

Also statistical tables

4/2/16 c1949 Folder “Benelux. Lecture of 1949 or thereabouts” possibly

part of “Problems of British Industry” course

4/2/17 10.1949-

1.1961

Problems of Economic Policy course 1960-1, with earlier

notes to demonstrate range of problems since began

teaching it in 1949

4/2/18 10.1950-

c1959

Folder “Lectures to L.S.E.”. Typed text (with

rearrangement and additions) of 3 lectures on “Economic

Prediction”. Also contains notes for Carlyle Club meeting

14 Oct 1950 on “Economics and Planning”

4/2/19 c1950-1960 „Foreign Trade‟ on comparative advantage

Box 51

4/2/20 c1952 On economic state of Burma, when Thakin Nu was PM

4/2/21 c1952 Problems of the British economy course. 5 bundles

4/2/22 1952 and Notes for course on “Industry” October 1952, on

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undated standardisation 1952 (lecture 5), optimum size, risks and

fluctuations, more on standardisation, simplification.

Letter of introduction from AK Bose

4/2/23 1952-3 and

undated

No titles. Notes on advantages of USA, centralisation

(Lent term 1952), optimum managerial limit, 3 printed

articles on management/size of firm, notes on risks and

fluctuations

4/2/24 c1953 and

undated

1953 Cricket brochure for Australian Tour; notes on

competition with diagrams, notes for conversation class,

on representative firm, Protection, Ottawa Conference. 4

sheets Joan Robinson notes on economic theory, 3 sheets

page proofs from “Competitive Industry”

4/2/25 c1953-1954 Notes on “Principles of Economics”, probably for

Elementary Principles Course 1953-4, revised for 1956-7

4/2/26 1.1953-

1.1962

Problems of Economic Policy course 1962 with earlier

reused notes

4/2/27 1.1953-

3.1953

Notes on UK position in world trade, probably for PBE

course

4/2/28 12.2.1953 „Progress and the Short Period‟, plus notes on monopolies,

factors of production, rent of land. Possibly from Industry

course

4/2/29 3.1953-

5.1953

Mainly on Budget, for Problems of British Economy

course

Box 52

4/2/30 13.11.1953-

13.11.1957

and undated

Large bundle notes, some headed “Demand”,

“Production”, “Size and Efficiency”, probably for

“Problems of British Economy” course. Includes IEA

conference papers 1953

4/2/31 10.1955

and undated

Removed from re-used folder. Notes on British exports,

war and its aftermath (single talk?), various typed hand-

outs of statistical tables, notes on Autumn Budget 1955,

long-term economic problems of UK (for Extra Mural

lecture), course on industry

4/2/32 c1955 „National Income‟

4/2/33 1955-1959 Notes for May Term 1955 (Problems of the British

Economy?), “Last Lecture May 1959” (Problems of

Economic Policy), statistical tables

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Box 53

4/2/34 1955-1956 Notes for Problems of British Economy course, economic

survey of Europe, on balance of payments, May term

lecture 3

4/2/35 7.-8.1956

and undated

Notes headed “Theory of Wages”, “The Liberal Economy”

and “Demand for Individual Products”. Papers concerning

organisation of East/West Economists meeting in Geneva

c1958 on “The Level and Structure of National Production

and Their Determining Factors” for IEA

4/2/36 1957-1960 „Colonial Students‟ on „Prices and Price Control‟ folder of

several bundles of papers

4/2/37 c1958 „Lecture 3‟, probably from Elementary Principles course,

covers natural resources, yields, population, valuation and

capital

4/2/38 2.1958 Elementary Principles course “Localisation”

4/2/39 c1958-1959 Economic Structure Course notes

4/2/40 c1958-1960 Economic Structure (?) notes, bundles on size of firms,

mechanisation, division of labour, economics of scale,

consumption, foreign trade

4/2/41 c1959 Folder “L.S.E. Lectures”. Text of first lecture (of 3) on

“Economic Prediction”. Refers to work of Prof M.G.

Kendall published in Royal Statistical Society Journal of

1958

Box 54

4/2/42 9.11.1958 Notes “Power to Support” Problems of economic policy

course. Figures to 1963

4/2/43 1959-1961 Problems of Economic Policy course, May Term 1961

reusing older notes

4/2/44 5.1959 Problems of Economic Policy, first lecture May Term

onwards

4/2/45 1959 Economic Structure, first lecture of course onwards

4/2/46 25.2.1960 Notes “Industry. First year” Possibly Problems of

economic structure course

4/2/47 4.3.1960 „Industry. Last lecture‟ on problems of control over

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monopoly. [Was teaching Economic Structure and

Problems of Economic Policy courses that term]

4/2/48 1961-1968 Various notes under the title of Fuel and Power

Box 55

4/2/49 c1964-1974 Diploma in Development Economics notes. Odd pages and

stats, notes on the „Great Problems‟, „Co-operative

Development of the ASEAN Nations‟, „East Pakistan‟,

education and transport, the Vanoni Plan of 1954-5, the

Indian Plan and its problems, talk to research students on

agricultural and industrial development

4/2/50 1965-1967 6 bundles of notes “Overseas Studies and notes on Uganda

4/2/51 4.1965 Five bundles of notes on the Current economic position;

4. 1965 notes for 2nd lecture on progress of British

Economy; 5.1965 Budget , British economy; 5.1965 2nd

lecture; 5.1967 Budget; 5.1967 Part II Balance of

payments

Part 3 Drafts and notes

Box 56

4/3/1 Undated Lecture notes on money as a medium of exchange;

typescript of 16 pp population/increasing returns draft,

with additional MS sections by JVR and EAGR; notes on

index numbers; lecture notes on value of money, British,

USA, German and French banking

4/3/2 Undated MS draft of „essay‟ on economic theory of population, 4

pp by JVR rest EAGR;

4/3/3 Undated „Central Problem‟ re productivity

4/3/4 Undated On foreign investments of Great Britain

4/3/5 Undated Notes possibly for lecture on „General Theory‟

4/3/6 Undated „Capital Hours‟

4/3/7 Undated Notes on maximum profit and rough diagrams

4/3/8 Undated EAGR transcript of note in 1931 Lecture List about

discussions on Monetary theory

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4/3/9

c1921 Typescript essay/memorandum „Government Interference

in Wage Questions‟ by EAGR, with comments by WH

Reynolds from Ministry of Labour; paper on international

labour legislation; incomplete paper on reasons for

unemployment; 2 graphs of trade and investments

4/3/10

c1925-1938 Lecture notes from possibly Industry course. Cover coal

industry including wages and conditions. Stats added up to

1938

4/3/11 After 1926 „Tanganyika Agriculture‟

Box 57

4/3/12 Ms draft of Chap I of “essay” on economic theory of

population; typescript “II The Measurement of

Satisfaction”

4/3/13

c1930 Typescript and MS sections of essay on population by JVR

and EAGR. Various versions of incomplete typescript

(duplicates destroyed, some reconstructed). Includes letter

from Charles HP Gifford on article by Robbins. Also

typescripts on probability and glossary of statistical

measures, corrected by JVR

4/3/14 c1930 MS drafts by EAGR and JVR possibly of book re

population/increasing returns, with some typescript

material. Last page is outline of the work

4/3/15

c1930 MS drafts by JVR and EAGR, probably for „ Structure of

Competitive Industry‟. Cover marketing, effects of risk on

size of firm, vertical disintegration, small firm (JVR),

division of labour etc. Lots of points on separate sheets of

paper possibly early draft. Lecture notes on organisation of

industry, external economy, diseconomies

4/3/16 After 1930 „The New Machine Smashers‟

4/3/17 c1930-1934 Notes possibly for ‟Economic Structure‟ course: on selling

methods, advertising, large-scale distribution; printed

leaflet on direct selling by Lanchester‟s Laboratories Ltd

11.1930; wheat production in Canada; advantages of small

firms, including leaflet by Austin Motor Co. 1934;

diagrams of management structure for R. and C.C. Co Ltd

Manchester

4/3/18 c1930-1935 From folder labelled „1st Year 2nd term‟. Notes on iron

and steel production, possibly for Industry‟ course.

Original notes c1930 updated to 1935-

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Box 58

4/3/19

c1930-1952 Notes for possibly Structure of British Industry course on

effects on structure of capital raising, optimum marketing

unit, organisation of cotton industry, selling, vertical

disintegration, lateral integration, retailing, resale price

maintenance, distribution

4/3/20 c1931 From folder „I‟, notes possibly for course on „Power

Transport and Localization‟ or „Economic Structure‟:

notes cover elasticity of demand, large-scale production

and localization of industry; half p JVR notes; news

cutting on wheat quota 9.4.1931; 3 pp typescript on selling

methods, middlemen

4/3/21 c1931-1941

and undated

Miscellaneous drafts: EAGR review of „Economic Essays

and Addresses‟ by Pigou and Robertson (1931); JVR 6 pp.

on output under monopoly and competition (corrected by

EAGR); EAGR draft on analysis of competitive economic

system and planned economy; outline of book on

„Monopoly‟; various draft sections including Chap 1

paragraph 6 on effects on price; notes on „Theology and

Economics‟; 2 pp JVR on monopoly; draft statement to

R.C. on Theory of Value 1931; 7 pp typescript on ways

firm can expand; notes for first chapter of „Monopoly‟

4/3/22 1932 Hardback notebook EAGR notes from African trip to

copper mines

4/3/23 c1932-1933 Notes possibly for ‟Money Banking and International

Trade‟ course on S. Africa and Australia, Rhodesia, lots on

India including earlier notes; essays list Lent Term 1933

4/3/24 after 1932 „Economic Adaptation‟ re N. Rhodesia

4/3/25 c1938-1954 Very miscellaneous notes: letter 21.9.1950 from Univ. of

London inviting EAGR to give 1 of 6 lectures on „Western

Economic Co-operation‟, draft chapter on „British Empire‟

trade by EAGR c1938, statistical tables, notes on OEEC

possibly for above lecture, May Term notes on ways of

increasing trade, stats, May Term 1954 lecture notes on

Economic Survey, MS stats, notes for Cambridge Summer

Course 1950, part 1937 paper estimating exports in 1951

Box 59

4/3/26 1939 and

undated

Folder of notes, probably for „Problems of British

Economy‟ lecture course. Covers optimum firm,

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representative firm, relation of division of labour to size of

firm, notes on 1939 Economy, demand, re-employment,

notes on Punjab, over-population. Appear to be lots of

reused pp.

4/3/27 1941-1948 EAGR „Football, 1941 Season: Character of the Team‟ re

Government personnel (much later guide to initials

attached), typescripts spoof „Plans for V.E. Day‟,

„Principles of Co-operation‟ re Ruritania and „The Scales

of Disaster‟

4/3/28 28.3.1945-

1.1952

Lecture notes for „Problems of the British Economy‟

course 1950-1, including for 24.11.1951; possibly May

Term 1949 reused notes, including typed paper on post-

war trade 28.3.1945; notes on „Money‟ and history of

banking 1.1952 when EAGR took over RF Henderson‟s

course

4/3/29 c1948-1955 Sheets of stats for handouts, typescript EAGR Nuffield

College, Oxford opening talk on „The Balance of

payments‟ 1.7.1955 in series „The Next Ten Years in

British Economic Policy‟, lecture notes on „U.S. Balance

of Payments‟ c1955, lecture notes on return to 1938 level

of capital 22.5.1954, book list „Industry‟ course c1950,

Press release 1948 on speech of Sir Stafford Cripps,

Chancellor of Exchequer

4/3/30 After 1967 „The Economic life of Generating Stations‟

4/3/31 c1970 Notebook pages rough notes possibly re

Pakistan/Bangladesh

Part 4 Statistical material

Box 60

4/4/1 1925-1930 Various documents relating to the coal industry both in

this country and abroad

4/4/2 c1948-1960 Large bundle statistics MS and typed, including about

Burma c1950 (possibly gathered on visit), for Imperial

Defence College course, on productivity, international

trade, published “Bulletins for Industry”, produced by the

Treasury. Many sheets annotated and updated.

4/4/3 c1950-1960 Several sheets, some handwritten concerning statistics for

British industry and exports

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Section Five

EAGR’s Writings

Part 1 1920s-1940s

Box 61

5/1/1 Undated Untitled Ms beginning „Economics has sometimes been

called a study of wealth. Perhaps we might call it more

appropriately a study of poverty‟. 4 pp

5/1/2 Undated Typescript essay on „mutual relations of the economist and

of the theologian‟

5/1/3 Undated „Note on Certain Economic Problems of Africa, and the

Information that would be Desirable for their

Consideration‟

5/1/4 Undated Ms on methods of calculating welfare of society. 1 p

5/1/5 c1921-1922 Ms paper/essay „Agricultural Wages‟

5/1/6 c11.1922 Ms paper/essay „Some Recent Changes in the Balance of

Trade‟

5/1/7 1922-1933 Photocopy 1 p “doodles” possibly by JVR, dated on back

by EAGR

5/1/8 c1928 Typescript „The Theory of Population‟ with Ms

corrections. (Numerous other versions in other files)

5/1/9 13.4.1929 Ms letter to Dennis Robertson re points in his „Money‟ and

Banking Policy‟ returned to EAGR with annotations by

Robertson. 15 pp

5/1/10 8.8.1931 Memorandum of Agreement between EAGR and Nisbet

and Co for „The Structure of Industry‟ (revised title The

Structure of Competitive Industry), with rough outline of

contents of chapters

5/1/11 13.10.1933 Letter J Merle Davies to EAGR enclosing proofs of

Foreword, Contents and Title Pages of „Modern Industry

and the African‟

5/1/12 5.1934-

9.8.1935

Copy typescript „Note on the Upholland Scheme‟ of

smallholdings to provide employment for the unemployed,

typescript analysis of hours and produce, memo by Peter

Scott of Brynmawr and report by umpire in claim for

benefit under Unemployed Insurance Act 1935

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5/1/13 21.11.1935 Copy „The Oxford Magazine‟ containing EAGR article on

new University Library at Cambridge

5/1/14 1936-c1990 Ms review of JM Keynes‟ „The General theory of

Employment, Interest and Money‟, c1990 typescript of

this, photocopy modified text published in „Economist‟ for

29.2.1936. All in recent envelope file

5/1/15 30.12.1941 Photocopy typescript comments to Lionel Robbins on his

„The MAF Memorandum on Post-War Policy and the

Principle of Comparative Advantage‟, signed by EAGR in

old age

5/1/16 4.8.1944 Typescript „Day Trip to Normandy‟ marked HTW 3560

secret

5/1/17 21.9.1944 Ms diary of 2 days travelling to Scotland to embark for

USA economic talks

5/1/18 1946-1947 Typescript draft sections JMK obituary, with comments by

Richard Braithwaite and Richard Kahn

5/1/19 3.1947 Printed offprint of JM Keynes‟ obituary from EJ

5/1/20 12.5.1947 Copy London and Cambridge Economic Service Bulletin

with EAGR article on Economic Position of UK

5/1/21 1948 Proof „Economic Survey for 1948‟ with Ms corrections

5/1/22 1948 Proof „ Economic Survey for 1948 [Draft for Publication]‟

annotated „EAGR was draftsman‟. Text quite different

from above proof.

5/1/23 15.7.1949 Typescript „The United Kingdom‟s Economic Problems‟

for British Commonwealth Relations Conference 1949

5/1/24 3.10.1949 Comments by Norman Brook on „The Overall Allocation

of Resources‟ by EAGR, published in „Lessons of the

British War Economy‟, ed. Daniel N Chester (1951)

5/1/25 12.1949 Offprint of „Official Papers. Five Economic Surveys‟ from

EJ

5/1/26 12.1949 Offprints 2 reviews by EAGR from EJ

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Part 2 1950-1955

Box 62

5/2/1

c1950 Ms and typescript of „Western Union and the

Commonwealth‟

5/2/2 1950 Printed „United Kingdom Policy‟, published by Royal

Institute of International Affairs, including „The United

Kingdom‟s Economic Problems‟ by EAGR

5/2/3 1950 “Use of home resources to save imports” Economic

Journal

5/2/4 5.1950 Copy „London and Cambridge Economic Service Bulletin‟

including „British Economic Policy 1945-1950‟ by EAGR

5/2/5 2.1951 Ms and copy typescript „The Economic Problems of

Burma‟ plus correspondence re report including Stephen

Holmes, Peter Ady, Martin Flett

5/2/6 11.1951 Copy typescripts of „Discussion on The Economic

Situation held at The Savoy Hotel‟ for „Picture Post‟,

participants EAGR, Edward Hulton, Roy Harrod, Oscar

Hobson, DN Chester

5/2/7 12.1951 Typescript of review of „Works and Correspondence of

David Ricardo‟ for EJ

5/2/8 c1952 Typescript „The Functions and Organisation of an

Economic Adviser‟s Office in the Government of

Pakistan‟. (Copy in file on Pakistan?)

5/2/9 1955 Typescript report of EAGR speech „The Future Pattern of

the British Economy‟

5/2/10 1955 Typescript draft and published copy „Report on the Needs

for Economic Research and Investigation in East Africa‟

5/2/11 c1955 Copy typescript „Changed Economic Circumstances‟

5/2/12 28.4.1955 Typescript „Draft Report of the O.E.E.C. Council on the

Italian Development Programme‟ with EAGR pencil

amendments

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Part 3 1955- 1959

Box 63

5/3/1 9.6.1955-

1956

Ms and 2 typescripts „The World‟s Need(s) for a New

Source of Energy‟ by EAGR and GH Daniel, paper for UN

Geneva Conference on Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy,

with copy letter to Daniel

5/3/2 1.7.1955 Typescript speech text „The Balance of Payments‟ from

Nuffield College conference on „The Next Ten Years in

British Economic Policy‟ (another copy in speech notes)

5/3/3 1956 Typescript „The Changing Pattern of World Trade in

Manufactures‟

5/3/4 1956 Ms „Revised Calculation of Gross and Net Capital‟, 2 pp

stats

5/3/5 c1957 Typescript „Planning of Investment in Fuel and Power in

Under-Developed Countries‟ by GH Daniel and EAGR, (?

for Belgrade Conference)

5/3/6 1957 Ms „The British Economy in 1970‟, second of series of

articles

5/3/7 c1957 Ms and typescript „For Paper for Lord President‟ on case

for increased expenditure on research and development in

UK

5/3/8 c1957 Typescript „The Factors that Determine the Total Level of

Production and the Rates of Growth of Production‟ (? copy

elsewhere)

5/3/9 c1957-1958 Ms „British Agricultural Policy and the Balance of

payments‟ possibly written for speech by politician, 2 pp

typed stats

5/3/10 29.8.1957-

5.2.1959

Typescript draft part obit of Knox-Shaw and letter from

Patrick Wilkinson of King‟s College, incomplete Ms draft

re growth, Typescript „The Problem of Living Within our

Foreign Earnings Further Considered‟ for „Three Banks

Review‟, typescripts and proofs „The Cost of Agricultural

Import Saving‟ for same journal, Ms draft for „Financial

Times‟ article on „British Economy in 1970‟, plus

correspondence about all these

5/3/11 6.1958 Offprint article „The Problem of Living within our Foreign

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Earnings Further Considered‟ from Three Banks Review

5/3/12 19.8.1958 Typescript title page and contents list „An Inquiry into

Relative Cost and Productivity Levels in the United

Kingdom and Other Economies‟ by EAGR and Elvin

Thorgerson of DAE Cambridge, with Ms and copy letter to

GE Preston at Board of Trade

5/3/13 12.1959 Copy „The Hawk. The Journal of the RAF Staff Colleges‟

with EAGR article „The Economics of Defence‟

Part 4 1960-1969

Box 64

5/4/1

c1960 Typescript on USSR (incomplete)

5/4/2 10.1.1962 Photocopy typescript obit of Claude Guillebaud as sent to

Patrick Wilkinson of King‟s College, typescript note on

„Report of the Committee on Social Studies‟ for EJ

5/4/3 4.1962-

10.1962

Ms and copy typescript „Forecasting the Requirements and

Priorities of Numbers and Types of Scientists and

Technologists‟ for UN conference on „Application of

Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less

Developed Areas‟, Feb 1963 Geneva, plus correspondence

5/4/4 1963-1964 Proof pages reprint JM Keynes obituary with article

„Could There Have Been a “General Theory” Without

Keynes‟, from Robert Lekachman, ed. „Keynes General

Theory: Reports of Three Decades‟

5/4/5 12.1963 Copy „Three Banks Review‟ containing „Re-thinking

Foreign Trade Policy‟ by EAGR

5/4/6 1964-1968 Offprints of EJ book reviews (put in date order, duplicates

destroyed)

5/4/7 6.1964 Part copy London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin,

EAGR article „Prospects for 1964‟

5/4/8 9.1965 Typescript „The Desirable Level of Agriculture in the

Advanced Industrial Economies‟ for IEA conference on

„Economic Problems of Agriculture in Industrial Societies

and Repercussions in Developing Countries‟, Rome 1-8

Sept DUPLICATE in IEA file - weed

5/4/9 12.1965-

10.1966

2 London and Cambridge Economic Bulletins on British

Economy

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5/4/10 11.1966 Typescript „The Developing Urban Detroit Area Research

Project. Some Economic Comments‟

5/4/11 c1967 “EAGR Marshall lectures”

5/4/12 1967 Offprint „The Case of Energy Investment‟ from „The

Crisis in Indian Planning‟, ed. P Streeten and M Lipton,

for Royal Institute of International Affairs

5/4/13 1967 Offprint „Some Thoughts on Monopoly‟ from „Scottish

Journal of PE‟

5/4/14 c1967 “EAGR articles: Marshall lectures”

5/4/15 5.1967 Printed „The Problems of Teaching Economics in

Pakistan‟, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

5/4/16 9.1968 Photocopy typescript „Detroit Edison: How Big in the

Year 2000?‟ may be draft of similar notes with changed

title

5/4/17 3.1969 Offprint „Economic Progress in India‟ from „Three Banks

Review‟

5/4/18 3.1969 Copy typescript „Economic Progress in India‟, published

in „Three Banks Review‟

Part 5 1970-1972

Box 65

5/5/1 c1970 Copy typescript „Energy Investment in the Fourth Plan‟ re

India, sent from Royal Institute of International Affairs

5/5/2 c1970 Typescript stats re contributors to EJ and Economica

1920-1969 [connected with article by AW Coats]

5/5/3 c1970 Photocopy typescript „The Cambridge “Circus” 1930-1‟,

using memories of Richard Kahn, James Meade, Piero

Sraffa, EAGR and JVR

5/5/4 c1970 Typescript „Some Comments on the President‟s State of

the Union Speech‟, memo sent to Messrs Cisler, Meese

and George

5/5/5 c1970-1980 Ms draft obit of James E Meade, possibly for „Times‟

5/5/6 c1970-1980 Copy typescript „Training in the Techniques of Research‟

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re Bangladesh Institute of Development Economics

5/5/7 7.4.1970 Typescript „Some Thoughts on Indonesia‟, plus other notes

including „The Size of the ASEAN Market in 1975‟

5/5/8 24.4.1970-

30.4.1970

and 9,1970

Ms and copy typescript „Detroit Edison in 2000‟ with

letter from Art E Bush about it

Photocopy typescript “Note on possible functions and

desirable qualifications of a highly qualified economist in

the Detroit Edison Company”, with photocopy letter and

list possible candidates

5/5/9 17.9.1970 Photocopy typescript „South Asian Experimental

“Workshop” in Collaborative Study of a Problem in

Economic Development‟, with Ms notes (possibly for

speech) on effects of scientific progress on agriculture

5/5/10 10.1970 Typescript „Notes on a Meeting of the Cambridge

University-Ministry of Defence Study Group Held at

Cambridge on 23, 24 October 1970‟ including EAGR

speech, produced by Ministry of Defence

5/5/11 c1971 Photocopy typescript „Exchange Control Regime and

Economic Development. Experience of United Pakistan

(1950-1970)‟. First 2 chapters with outline of 350 pp book

(? not by EAGR)

5/5/12 1971 Typescript note „An Analysis of the Current Energy

Problem of the United States‟ sent to Walker Cisler,

William Meese and Harold Reasoner

5/5/13 1971-1972 Typescript „John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Author,

Statesman‟, First British Academy Keynes Lecture, Ms

draft sections and typescript of „On Editing Maynard

Keynes‟, proof pages for intro etc. RES edition Keynes „A

Treatise on Money‟, typescript of a chapter entitled „The

Political Economy of Modern Theory - Keynes, Keynsians

and the Neoclassicists

5/5/14 6.1971 Typescript „Report on the Power Economy Committee.

Note for Dr KL Rao by Professor EAG Robinson‟

5/5/15 11.1971 Typescript „Fifty Years of Commonwealth Economic

Development‟ with Ms corrections, the Smuts Memorial

Lecture given on 23.11.1971, with 3 pp Ms stats

5/5/16 c1972 Typescript „A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Economic Co-

operation. Preliminary Note‟

5/5/17 c3.1972 Copy „History of Economic Thought Newsletter‟

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containing EAGR note on Alfred Marshall‟s short

autobiography for Eckstein

5/5/18 6.1972- Typescript „Four Days in Bangladesh June 1972‟, a

personal diary. 8.1972. Another copy sent to Christopher

and Peggy Robinson, returned by Christopher with note

about his travel arrangements (? put note with

correspondence x ref). Note that was attached to another

copy (destroyed) circulated around Faculty of Economics

5/5/19 7.1972- ? Typescript book review of „Development Policy II: The

Pakistan Experience‟, ed. Walter P Falcon and Gustav F

Papanek and „Foreign Aid and Industrial Development in

Pakistan‟ by Irving Brecher and SA Abbas, for „Modern

Asian Studies‟

5/5/20 25.9.1972 Typescript „An Economist‟s Analysis of European

Agricultural Problems‟, opening speech for RES

conference on Common Agricultural Policy, with draft

agenda

Part 6 1972-1975

Box 66

5/6/1 c2.1973 Photocopy typescript „The Maintenance of Laboratories in

Bangladesh‟, by EAGR as Joint-Chairman of Society of

Friends of Dacca University

5/6/2 9.4.1973 Ms draft letter to his former secretaries, giving news of

each and his news of conferences he has just attended. 15

pp

5/6/3/1

5/6/3/2

11.1973-

4.1974

Typescripts „The Evaluation of Multi-National Projects

and the Basis of a Policy for their Establishment in

Developing Countries‟ and 1974 revision. 2 folders

5/6/4 1973-1974 “A note for Professor Coats and a personal view.

Economic development of Malthusia”. “Articles written

73/74”

5/6/5 c1974 Ms draft letter possibly to M Alamgir probably re

Bangladesh Institute of Development Economics

publication

5/6/6 1.1974 Photocopy typescript „The Functions of a Social Science

Research Council in Bangladesh‟, Dacca Jan 1974

5/6/7 1.1974 Photocopy typescript report by Henning Friis and Andrew

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Shonfield on Bangladesh Social Science Research Council

5/6/8 6.3.1974-

c1975

Typescript copy „The Economic Development of

Malthusia‟ with Ms annotations, plus list people attending

on ODI headed paper. Also offprint from „Modern Asian

Studies‟ which states it is text of Kingsley Martin

Memorial Lecture given in Cambridge 6.3.1974

5/6/9 c1975 Printed copy „Future Tasks for UNDP. Report to the

Administrator of the United Nations Development

Programme‟

5/6/10 4.1975 Typescript draft „Report of the Review Mission on the

Mekong Programme‟, by EAGR, Walker L Cisler and

Norma Globerman with letter to Rudolph Peterson UNDP.

Note to Ba (Barbara Robinson/Jeffrey?) on first page. Note

from Bill Humphrey to EAGR (was attached to duplicate

copy report, now destroyed).

Part 7 1976-1990

Box 67

5/7/1 c1976 Photocopy typescript „Rural Development: FAO

Approach‟ with Ms corrections by EAGR

5/7/2 c1976 Ms „Fourth World Food Survey. Note by Austin

Robinson‟ for Nurul Islam

5/7/3 9.1976 Photocopy typescript EAGR paper „The Availability of

Appropriate Technologies‟ from IEA conference Teheran,

annotated by EAGR. Last 2 pages supplied from duplicate

copy (not annotated, remainder destroyed)

5/7/4 12.1976 Ms „Preliminary Proposals for a Study of the Implications

for the Teheran Regional Electricity Company of the

Present Energy Policies of Iran‟

5/7/5 28.11.1977 Photocopy Ms „Draft Statement‟ for Nurul Islam re Food

and Agriculture Organisation

5/7/6 30.11.1977 Typescript „The State of Food and Agriculture 1976 and

1977‟ and Ms addendum for Nurul Islam

5/7/7 16.12.1977 Typescript „Note on Monitoring of Progress on

International Agricultural Adjustment‟ possibly for Food

and Agriculture Organisation

5/7/8 c1978 Copy typescript obit of Roy Harrod possibly for „Times‟

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[copy letter 2.5.1992 EAGR to Cairncross says EAGR

wrote obit for Harrod about 20 years before his death]

5/7/9 1985 Offprint obituary of Hubert Douglas Henderson from

Proceedings of the British Academy, 1984

5/7/10 c1986 Typescript „Some Comments on Energy Policy in the

Development of China‟

5/7/11 c1986 Typescript „The International Economic Association and

India‟, outlining EAGR‟s involvement from beginning of

IEA

5/7/12 1986 Review article “The economic problems of te transition

from war to peace : 1945-49” Economic Journal

5/7/13 1988 Typescript „Foreword‟ to Neville Brown „Dissenting

Forbears‟ re maternal ancestors of JM Keynes

5/7/14 c1988-1991 Ms „My Apprenticeship as an Economist‟, published 1992

in M Szenberg (ed.), „Eminent Economists‟

5/7/15 c9.1989 Typescript obit of Colin Clark for a Cambridge publication

5/7/16 c1990 Ms autobiographical notes by EAGR. 1 p

5/7/17 1.1991 Proof pages „The Economics of the Next Century‟ from EJ

with EAGR corrections

5/7/18 5.1992 Photocopy corrected typescript „Munitions Output of the

United Kingdom, 1939-1944‟ published in Economic

History Review

5/7/19 28.8.1990 Photocopy obit of Sukhamoy Chakravarty from Times,

possibly by EAGR

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Section Six

Other People’s Writings

Part 1 1921-1953

Box 68

6/1/1 Undated Typescript „Management Research Group - Number 3A.

Report on Answers to Questionnaire Relating to Cost‟ by

Philip Sargant Florence - not annotated

6/1/2 Undated Ms note by (PR?) Manach on „Weber and Dennison on

Location of Industries‟ addressed to EAGR - not annotated

6/1/3 Undated “What Germany can get out of Poland” Typescript

manuscript possibly by JVR

6/1/4 Various Folder of various notes and letters concerning the word of

Keynes

6/1/5 1.1921 Typescript „Government Interference in Wages Questions‟

by CR Fay, possibly published elsewhere - no EAGR

annotations

6/1/6 1926-9 Hardback notebook annotated by Richard Kahn inside

front cover “Lecture notes by John Saltmarsh Fellow of

King‟s College Cambridge (died a few years ago)...” The

notes were taken at lectures on Economic Theory st

Cambridge by Arthur Cecil Pigou, c1926-9. Notebook

annotated with request to return to Kahn

6/1/7 10.1932-

1990

Recent photocopy 1932 essay by WB Reddaway „Free

Trade versus Protection‟, possibly as Dennis Robertson

student - no EAGR annotations

6/1/8 c11.1947 Ms „Progress so far in the Overall Co-ordination of

Planning‟ by EAGR. Was attached to folder with treasury

tag

6/1/9 4.11.1947 Copy typescript „Plans and Priorities‟ by Douglas Jay,

Fabian Lecture, plus letter to EAGR

6/1/10 6.11.1947 Copy typescript „The Framework of Economic Planning,

possibly by EAGR

6/1/11 21.5.1948 Printed copy „Valedictory. The English Way of Life‟ by

CR Fay - not annotated

6/1/12 c1951 Offprint „Oxbridge Rampant. Education and progress in

Under-Developed Areas‟ by T Balogh, from „Universities

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Quarterly‟ - not annotated

6/1/13 1952 Various letters to and concerning work of Lord William

Henry Beveridge from Paul F Hirschfelder

6/1/14 6.1952 Copy typescript „Economic Planning in Great Britain‟ by

Peter M Gutmann, MA thesis Columbia University - not

annotated

6/1/15 11.1952 “L.F. Giblin : An appreciation contribution to the

Economic Record for Nov. 192”

6/1/16 c1953 “The integration of economic and sociological theory.”

Talcott Parsons, the Marshall lectures, Cambridge 1953.

Also letter to EAGR from Parsons

6/1/17 9.1953 Typescript „National Income and Expenditure of the UK,

1870-1952‟ by James B Jefferys and Dorothy Walters, for

International Association for Research in Income and

Wealth, 3rd Conference at Castelgandolfo -not annotated

Part 2 1954-1966

Box 68

6/2/1 1954 Folder “A.L Minkes” various notes and statistics

6/2/2 15.12.1955 Copy „Britain‟s Energy Prospects‟ by GH Daniel, the 1955

Viscount Nuffield Paper - not annotated

6/2/3 19.10.1956 Typescript „The Effects of a Contraction of Output of

British Agriculture‟ by DT Healy, with letter Healy to

EAGR - not annotated

6/2/4 1958 4 typescript papers from International Conference in

Chicago on Restrictive Business Practices - not annotated

6/2/5 18.7.1962-

20.7.1962

Photocopy typescript of „footnote‟ to speech of Professor

Frisch at Britain-Commonwealth- EFTA Conference in

London by JVR „Part II. World Price Level Multipliers‟

possibly by Frisch and title page „Draft of a Multilateral

Trade Clearing Agency‟ by JVR and Frisch - not annotated

6/2/6 12.12.1963 “Surplus trading with the underdeveloped

countries.”Dudley Bradshaw

6/2/7 25.5.1964 “Harmony and conflict”. Jan Pen

6/2/8 25.11.1964 Report on the underdeveloped nations by Leopold Kohr

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6/2/9 23.2.1966 Draft book „The Developing Urban Detroit Area Research

Project‟ directed by CA Doxiadis. 444 pp - not annotated

Part 3 1967-1985

Box 70

6/3/1

24.2.1967 Offprint „The Ever Widening Gap‟ by Patrick Maynard

Stuart Blackett, from ‟Science‟

6/3/2 3.1969 “The American Economic Association‟s publications: an

historical perspective” A W Coats. Reprinted from the

Journal of Economic Literature, Vol VII, no 1, March

1969

6/3/3 6.1969 “The history of economic thought in the International

Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences”. J M Letiche,

reprinted from the Journal of Economic Literature, Vol

VII, no 2, June 1969

6/3/4

c1970 Photocopy typescript „Productivity and Prestige in British

Economics: A Statistical Study of Contributions to the EJ

and Economica, 1920-1969‟ by AW Coats - annotated by

EAGR

6/3/5 c1970-1980 “J.M. Keynes and the depression in Australia”. Ian Turner

6/3/6 c1970s Collection of articles on Keynes and Cambridge

6/3/7 5.9.1972 Typescript „John Maynard Keynes: Scientist or Politician‟

by Elizabeth Johnson, given at BAAS Section F annual

meeting

6/3/8 5.1973 “Exchange control, liberalization and economic

development.” Jagdish N Bilagwati and Anne O Krueger.

American Economic Association

6/3/9 1973-1980 Various letters either from, to or concerning Ezra

Bennathan

6/3/10 c1973 “The next step” Chapter 1 and synopsis of remaining

chapters. Richard Acland

6/3/11 1973 3 speeches by Lord Kahn to the House of Lords “

Economic and Industrial affairs”, “Counter-inflation

(prices and pay code) (No 20) Orer 1973” and “Economic

policy and fuel supplies”.

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6/3/12 c1974 Typescript „The Cambridge Controversies: The Afterglow‟

by Geoffrey C Harcourt

6/3/13 31.1.1974 Copy typescript „The Cambridge Version of the History of

Economics‟ by TW Hutchison, University of Birmingham

Occasional Paper 19 - not annotated

6/3/14 c1975 Photocopy proof pages „Thoughts on the Behavior [sic] of

Wages and Monetarism‟ by Richard Kahn, for ...„Review‟

- not annotated by EAGR

6/3/15 c1975 Typescript „The Logic of Indicative Planning Theory‟ -

not annotated

6/3/16 c1976 Typescript „Alfred Marshall‟s Early Writing on Value: A

Silent Change of Regime‟ possibly by joint authors - not

annotated

6/3/17 c2.1976 Photocopy typescript „A Keynesian View‟ by Richard

Kahn for „Scottish Journal of PE‟ - not annotated by

EAGR

6/3/18 21.2.1976 Photocopy typescript „Energy and Economic Theory‟ by

Bertram Schefold, read at the „Round Table‟ in Cambridge

- annotated by EAGR

6/3/19 21.2.1977 Photocopy typescript draft „Was There a Keynesian

Revolution in Economic Policy‟ by Susan Howson and

Donald E Moggridge, for Economic History Workshop at

Toronto University

6/3/20 6.1.1978-

9.1.1979

Ms note EAGR to Nurul Islam re draft of „Exchange

Control Regime and the Economic Development

Experience of United Pakistan‟ by Islam

6/3/21 22.10.1979 Typescript „Exploring Some Alternatives for the Second

Five-Year Plan of Bangladesh Using a Highly Aggregative

Framework‟ by A R Khan, for Asian Regional Team for

Employment Protection

6/3/22 c1980 Photocopy typescript draft article on „Sir Richard Clarke

1910-1975: A Most Unusual Civil Servant‟ for „Public

Administration‟. Author unknown

6/3/23 c1982 Photocopy typescript „D H MacGregor and the

Development of Full Cost Pricing‟, annotated that is by F

?W Roosevelt

6/3/24 11.1982 European University Institute Florence working paper

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„Modern Macroeconomic Theory: An Overview‟ by Jean-

Paul Fitoussi

6/3/25 c1983 Photocopy typescript „De-collectivisation of agriculture in

China, 1979-82: a long-term perspective‟ by Peter Nolan -

not annotated. Possibly later published as DAE working

paper

6/3/26 6.5.1983 Offprint „Lydia Lopokova‟ by Milo Keynes, from „The

Cambridge Review‟

6/3/27 9.7.1983 Offprint „Keynes and India. A Centennial Review and

Appraisal‟ by Anand G Chandavarkar, from „Economic

and Political Weekly‟ - not annotated

6/3/28 24.11.1983 “Keynes and the rebirth of Covent Garden” Robert

Skidelsky

6/3/29 c1984 Typescript short biography of JVR by Geoffrey C

Harcourt, possibly for DNB

6/3/30 1985 Photocopy printed chapter by Hashem Pesaran and Ron

Smith - not annotated

6/3/31 c1985 Ms translation of „The Nutritional System in General

Outline‟ by Max Rubner, Berlin (c1920). Translated by

Davis Lucas - not annotated

6/3/32 3.1985 Photocopy offprint „Jobs for All?‟ by David Worswick,

from EJ - not annotated

Part 4 1985-1990

Box 71

6/4/1 4.6.1985 Letter Alec Cairncross to EAGR re progress of biography.

Returns papers EAGR had sent. With Cairncross draft

chapters of book on Economic Advisory Council etc

during Second World War - not annotated

6/4/2 Sep-Dec

1985

“Bridges with higher education”. Professor J C Darcy

6/4/3 c1986 Photocopy printed chapter by John K Whitaker „The

Cambridge Background to Imperfect Competition‟, -

annotated by EAGR

6/4/4 c1986 Typescript DNB entry for Piero Sraffa by Geoffrey C

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Harcourt

6/4/5 8.8.1986 Photocopy typescript draft „Foreign Aid: Necessary?

Helpful? Damaging?‟ alias „Foreign Aid: A Misnomer‟ by

Lord Bauer

6/4/6 16.10.1986 Typescript 6 draft chapters of Edwin Plowden‟s

autobiography, published as „An Industrialist in the

Treasury: the Postwar Years‟ 1989

6/4/7 c1987 Photocopy typescript obit of Nicholas Kaldor by Geoff

Harcourt, for „Economica‟

6/4/8 16.1.1987 Letter from John Kirk enclosing text of his lecture

„Economic Problems of the 1930‟s and 1980‟s‟, given at

Wye College - not annotated

6/4/9 6.1987 “On Madmen” and “Defunct economists”, reflections on

the origins of the close of “The General Theory”. Richard

Wright

6/4/10

1988 Photocopy chapter „On Editing Keynes‟ by Donald E

Moggridge, from his „Editing Modern Economists‟, 1988

6/4/11 10.2.1988 Letter Michael Szenberg to EAGR inviting him to

contribute to „Eminent Economists‟, enclosing 6 examples

of previously published essays - not annotated

6/4/12 5.1988 Offprint obit „Nicholas Kaldor‟ by GC Harcourt from

„Economica‟ - not annotated

6/4/13 9.1988 Photocopy typescript „Education in the Indian Sub-

Continent‟ by Partha Dasgupta, written for conference

„The University in the Contemporary World‟ at Bologna

University

6/4/14 7.7.1989 Typescript draft „The Fate of an Errant Hypothesis: The

Normal Cost Prices Doctrine‟ by J Irving-Lessmann and

Frederic S Lee, with letter from Lee to EAGR requesting

comments

6/4/15 c1990 Photocopy typescript abstracts 5 papers for Marshall

Conference on centenary of „Principles‟ at Cambridge

6/4/16 c1990 Typescript „The Ordeal of Economic Freedom; Marshall

on Economic History‟ by Robin Matthews and Barry

Supple, paper given at Marshall Conference

6/4/17 1990 Offprint „Reflections on Economic Ideas and Government

Policy‟ by Alec Cairncross, from „Twentieth Century

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British History‟

6/4/18 c1990 Typescript life of „Richard Ferdinand Kahn‟ by Geoffrey C

Harcourt

6/4/19 c1990 Photocopy typescript „The Organon, The Tripos and the

Journal‟ re Marshallian „School‟ of Economics by David

Collard, published in „Centenary Essays on Alfred

Marshall‟ ed. John K Whitaker - annotated by EAGR

Part 5 1990- 1993

Box 72

6/5/1 1990 Offprint title pages and Prologue by EAGR from „Alfred

Marshall in Retrospect‟, ed. Rita McWilliams Tullberg

6/5/2 c1990 Typescript Peter Groenewegen‟s chapter „Alfred Marshall

as Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge‟ - not

annotated

6/5/3 4.1990 Offprint „Managing Reform in the East European

Economies: Lessons from the Postwar Experience of

Western Europe‟ by M Panic, for UN Economic

Commission for Europe - annotated by EAGR

6/5/4 23.9.1990 Letter Richard Keynes to EAGR enclosing computer

printout transcripts letters JMK to Lydia K 1930-1940,

with view to publishing 2nd volume of correspondence -

not annotated

6/5/5 10.10.1990 Typescript „Sukhamoy Chakravarty‟ by Ajit Singh and

Geoffrey C Harcourt

6/5/6 1991 Typescript „An Unusual Commitment. Alfred and Mary

Marshall and the Establishment of the Marshall Library

1903-1944‟ by Donald Ross, paper given at Marshall

Conference

6/5/7 2.1991 Draft paper „Kahn and Keynes and the Making of the

“General Theory”‟ by Geoffrey C Harcourt - not annotated

6/5/8 5.1991 Offprint obituary of „Sukhamoy Chakravarty‟ by Geoffrey

C Harcourt, from „Cambridge Journal of Economics‟

6/5/9 6.1991 Typescript „John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946‟ by

Geoffrey C Harcourt, for Dictionary of International

Economics

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6/5/10 10.1991 Typescript drafts 13 papers prepared for conference

organised by Cambridge Journal Of Economics

(4.10.1991) on „1979-1990 Thatcher‟s Economic Legacy‟.

Possibly published as conference proceedings

6/5/11 1991 “Pray Mr Babbage – a character study in dramatic form”.

Maurice V Wilkes. Annals of the History of Computing,

Vol 13, no 2, 1991

6/5/12 c1992 Typescript obit „Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone 1913-

1991‟ possibly by Angus Deaton for EJ - annotated by

EAGR

6/5/13 2.4.1992 Draft University of Warwick working paper by Mark

Harrison on „Soviet National Accounting for World War

II‟ - not annotated

6/5/14 3.1993 Photocopy typescript „Accumulation and the Rate of

Profits: Reflections on the Issues Raised in the

Correspondence Between Maurice Dobb, Joan Robinson

and Gerald Shove‟ by J A T R Araujo and Geoffrey C

Harcourt

Part 6 EAGR notes on Keynes, Shove and Pigou

Box 73

6/6/1 7.1983-

1.11.1985

Folder „Gerald Shove‟ and „Notes on Shove‟. Mainly

Correspondence about proposed project to publish edition

of Shove‟s lecture notes, similar to Rymes‟ project on JM

Keynes. Includes WA Bryan Hopkin original notes on

Shove and Robinson lectures and Walter Salent on Shove

1933-4

6/6/2 Undated Loose-leaf pad EAGR notes on Pigou family

6/6/3 Undated Folder „Pigou Election‟. EAGR notes and transcriptions of

documents re elections of Professors Marshall, Pigou and

Robertson. Also notes on appointment of electors.

6/6/4 15.6.1962-

30.10.1964

Letter Roy Harrod to EAGR enclosing draft article on

Pigou by Yuichi Shionoya, 2 letters Philip Noel-Baker to

EAGR disagreeing with EAGR views on Pigou (? as

expressed in draft entry for „International Encyclopaedia of

the Social Sciences‟ 1968), EAGR to Harcourt Lees re

Pigou family history. Photocopies Granta article 28.4.1900

on Pigou and 4 published obituaries

6/6/5 1964 and Re-used folder „Pigou‟. Mainly Pigou family history notes

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undated including 1964 copies Pigou‟s birth certificate and his

parents‟ marriage certificate. Letter from WR le Fanu on

Huguenot records, photocopy pamphlet on Pigou (author

unknown), Ms draft article on Pigou ancestry by EAGR

6/6/6 24.9.1964-

18.3.1968

Folder „EAGR Articles; Pigou‟. Correspondence and

papers re EAGR articles on Pigou in DNB, Economic

Journal and International Encyclopaedia of the Social

Sciences, including MS and typescript drafts.

Correspondents include P J Noel Baker, Walter Layton

and J W Jenkins (friend at Harrow)

6/6/7 8.10.1992

and undated

Folder „Pigou‟. 4 photocopied obituaries/appreciations of

Pigou. Letter Mark Blaug to EAGR re fact that Pigou was

never known as Arthur, re „Arthur Pigou‟ ed. Blaug 1992

6/6/8 Undated “Keynes as journal editor 1912-1945” by D E Moggridge

6/6/9 1964-1984 Folder “Keynes portrait” Print of painting and

correspondence

6/6/10 c1975 Folder “History of Keynes family

6/6/11 1981-1983 Folder “Lydia Keynes” Various letters and draft copy of

work on Lydia Keyne by EAGR

6/6/12 1982 “Keynes lecture. Notes by Robert B Bryce”. Transcribed

by Thomas K Rymes

6/6/13 26.9.1986 “John Maynard Keynes” Paper accompanying exhibition

on 50th

anniversary of “General Theory”, Stamford,

California

6/6/14 1.1990 Folder “Keynes edition location of edition files at

Closedown, Jan 1990

Part 7 Collection of memorial service sheets and obituaries

Box 74

6/7/1 12.6.1922-

22.5.1992

Press cuttings about economic events and reviews of

books. [Put in date order]

6/7/2 28.4.1923-

16.1.1971

Press cuttings about EAGR or his writings. Put in date

order

6/7/3 17.10.1932

and undated

2 Press cuttings about Robinson family

6/7/4 24.9.1948- Obituaries and memoirs published in Press or as

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11.12.199? pamphlets. Includes some from the „Times‟, which may be

by EAGR. Put in alphabetical order

6/7/5 21.7.1956-

24.4.1993

Memorial service sheets and texts of addresses given at

some of them, largely Cambridge economists or EAGR

family members. Put in alphabetical order

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Section Seven

Geography Based Career

Part 1 India

Box 75

7/1/1 1914-1992 Miscellaneous in chronological order: typed notes on

Hinduism possibly by HM Farmar; typed notes on motor

routes in central India Agency; photo of EAGR‟s house in

Gwalior; exercise book of Persian alphabet etc by EAGR

and JVR; exercise book of payments to private staff;

undated preface and sections on Customs Revenue and

salt production by JVR for draft on Princely States; typed

section on salt, single page on relationship between States

and Crown; press cutting on investiture of Maharaja of

Gwalior 1936; typed note by EAGR on Energy Problems

after visit to India Dec 1968; letter (move) PR

Brahmananda of Bombay University to EAGR 1984; list

South Asian Studies Seminars 1992

7/1/2 1926-1928 Descriptions of incidents in Gwalior by JVR in Ms and

typescript: dinner party, Lashkar, dinner at Jai Bilas, visit

to Ujjain. EAGR on „The Club‟ in Morar and changes in

Schooling of Maharaja

7/1/3 c1926-1947 Printed material. 2 maps Gwalior, 1 NE India, 1 later India

and Pakhistan; Hindustani text book; Nuptial Blessings for

weddings of Parsis; instructions of late Maharaja Scindia

regarding upbringing of son; 2 copies memorial number

for Sir Madhav Rao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior of

„Jayaji Pratap‟; birthday number for 12th birthday of

(George) Jiwaji Rao Scindia

Box 76

7/1/4 Various Folder “Dehli” Includes “Memorandum on the economic

and fiscal relations of the Indian States with the

Government of India” by K N Haksar

7/1/5 1926-1928 JVR reviews of EM Forster‟s „A Passage to India‟ and

book by Miss Mayo? „Mother India‟, 1927; list Indian

Princely States and possibly incomes

7/1/6 6.6.62-

17.11.69

Folder “Energy Commission – India”. 3 folders containing

various correspondence concerning the Indian Energy

Survey

7/1/7 31.1.1969- Folder „Christian Work in Delhi. Brotherhood House‟.

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25.6.1979 Correspondence and papers from EAGR‟s work on

Cambridge Committee, much re fund raising for Library of

Brotherhood House Delhi and for proposed Women‟s

College in Delhi. Minutes of 20 January 1971, report on

inauguration of the Church of North India, copy letters

EAGR to Christopher Robinson

7/1/8 20.5.1986-

16.10.1992

Folder „Delhi‟. Copy correspondence, much re William

Jarvis‟ biography of Teape edited by EAGR, also to

Christopher Robinson, Ian Weathrall and re work of

Cambridge Committee and Christopher Robinson Trust

7/1/9 c1987 Photocopy of typescript transcript of taped interview

between David Blake of BL India Office Collections and

EAGR about Gwalior, corrected by EAGR

Box 77

7/1/10 c1927-1928 Typescript drafts of „note‟ on economic relationships

between Indian States and British India, later note

“Gwalior Butler Commission on Indian States”, preface

with JVR corrections including attribution to EAGR,

chapter I on Economic Development of States, II on

Liabilities of States, III on Contributions to Defence, IV on

Treaties, V on Payment for defence, VI on Debt Service

and Political Department, VII on Communications, VIII on

Post Office, IX on Miscellaneous Services; another series

of drafts, chapter VII on Contributions of the States in

Customs, VIII on Excise, IX on Salt, X on Railways, XI on

Currency and Mint, XII on Income Tax, XIV Summary of

Liabilities and Contributions, XVII on Recommendations

(about refunding customs duties to States)

7/1/11 c1929-1931 From folder “Papers on India”: MS of EAGR paper on

Indian Princely States, with notes on background history;

typescript speech text on Indian States with some JVR

corrections

7/1/12 c1927-1931 Possibly EAGR lecture notes on Indian Industrialisation

on Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay writing paper; notes on

agricultural economy of India (Cambridge notes?);

damaged page re [Edwin] Cannon; notes/drafts on Indian

Economy, “The Religious Assumptions of Economics”,

Indian farming, Butler Committee, more MS on optimum

population, including JVR notes

7/1/13 3.10.1962-

1969

Papers re EAGR involvement in Energy and Power Study

of India : EAGR “First Thoughts on the Long-term Trends

of demand for Energy in India” c6.1963, copies memos

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from Walker Cisler re project, outline of project and

resources necessary; note on S Indian forests possibly by

Buishman; invitation to EAGR to meet Jawaharlal Nehru,

PM on India; “The Statesman” article on EAGR; Indian

Govt. resolution to appoint Committee to review electrical

supply industry 1969

7/1/14 Various Modern envelope file “Delhi Br[other]s”: reports and

leaflets from Cambridge Brotherhood of the Ascension,

Delhi and Friends of Delhi Diocese; EAGR papers from

successive Cambridge-based committees for work in Delhi

1933-1992; correspondence and newsletters; papers re

William Marshall Teape and Teape lectures; papers re

death of Bishop Christopher Robinson and CR Trust Fund

Part 2 Pakistan/Karachi

Box 78

7/2/1 1953-

26.11.1956

Correspondence file re EAGR trip to Pakistan under

auspices of UN Technical Assistance Administration,

including re giving conference address to Pakistan

Economic Association and UN printed material

7/2/2 22.10.1956-

27.5.1959

Correspondence file re trip to Pakistan and re staffing of

Pakistan Institute for Development Economics

7/2/3 12.1956-

1.1957

EAGR draft report on “Pakistan Institute for research in

Economic Development”, written after 4 week visit to the

country

7/2/4 ?1957 Confidential note on EAGR “visit to Pakistan to Report on

the Organisation of an Economic Adviser‟s Office” re

Pakistan Government economic organisation, MS draft

and typescript

7/2/5 1.1967 EAGR “The Problems of Teaching Economics in

Pakistan”, note for Pakistan Institute of Development

Economics, photocopied typescript

7/2/6 1970 - Draft of part EAGR book on Economic Development in

United Pakistan 1950-1970, photocopies and MS. Possibly

contribution to longer work

Box 79

7/2/7 23.11.1956-

7.7.1960

Folder “Pakistan 1956”. Typescript of report,

correspondence re setting up of Pakistan Institute for

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Development Economics and its later progress

7/2/8 17.3.65-

6.10.70

Folder “Karahci Institute of Development Economics –

1965” Envelope containing schedules and details of an

academic trip to Karachi, 1965. “The Problems of

Teaching Economics in Pakistan” by EAGR January 1967.

Various letters regarding this report and other academic

matters in Pakistan. Many letters to and from Nurul Islam,

Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development

Economics, Karachi, discussing the Institute Annual

Report of the Pakistan Institute of Development

Economics 1963-1964

7/2/9 19.4.58-

20.6.60

Folder “Pakistan 1956” Various letters concerning

Karachi and Pakistan in general

Part 3 Bangladesh

Box 80

7/3/1 Various Papers on Bangladesh (not sorted by date): 1990 paper on

Economic Prospects by Mahabub Hossain; photocopy of

EAGR “Economic Prospects of Bangladesh” typescript

marked up for publication, 1973; Energy Study 1976,

report of technical advisory committee; copy letter Just

Faaland to Bangladesh Minister of Planning re EAGR‟s

recommendations; photocopy draft letter EAGR to Carter

re Energy Survey Report; UNDP memo of agreement with

EAGR to act as adviser to Planning Commission of

Bangladesh; EAGR “First thoughts on a Long term

Perspective Plan for Bangladesh” 7.1978; 6.1974 report by

Overseas Advisory Associates on practicability of energy

survey of Bangladesh

7/3/2 7.12.1972-

8.5.1981

Folder “Bangladesh 1981 Esra Bennathan” Includes “First

thoughts on a long term perspective plan for Bangladesh”

By EAGR Typescript and handwritten

7/3/3 15.2.1973-

28.3.1973

Folder “Bangladesh cotton farming” small amount of

correspondence concerning Cotton Research Corp. in

Bangladesh

7/3/4 23.2.1973-

28.3.1973

Folder “Bangladesh SSRC representation” Social Science

Council, small amount of correspondence

7/3/5 1973 Folder “The economic prospects of Bangladesh” by EAGR

1973

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Box 81

7/3/6 5.2.1971-

31.7.1975

Folder “Bangladesh 1975” Correspondence and copy

correspondence

7/3/7 12.1971-

26.9.1973

Folder “Bangladesh 1973-4 (cont) miscellaneous”

7/3/8 1972-1985 Folder “Bangladesh” Includes “A perspective long term

strategy for Bangladesh economic development” by

EAGR, Sep 1979

7/3/9 1.1973-

7.5.1974

Folder “Bangladesh correspondence 1973-4 maintenance

of laboratories, equipment etc

7/3/10 3.10.1973-

6.12.1974

Folder “Bangladesh Technicians etc 1974”

Correspondence and copy correspondence

7/3/11 8.1.1975-

29.11.1978

Folder “Bangladesh (technicians etc) 1975” small amount

of correspondence

7/3/12 10.10.1975-

9.8.1979

Folder “Bangladesh Energy Survey” Various

correspondence and handwritten notes

Part 4 Dacca

Box 82

7/4/1 31.1.1971-

12.10.1973

Folder “Society of Friends of Dacca University 1971”

General correspondence regarding the Society. Lists of

staff of the University

7/4/2 16.4.1971-

5.5.1972

Folder “SFDU Duplicated material” Paperwork of the

Society of Friends of Dacca University

7/4/3 1974-1975 Folder “Society pf Friends of Dacca University 1974-5”

7/4/4 5.1974 Photocopies 2 sections of letter from EAGR possibly to

Joyce Baird describing flight and visit to power

installations in Dacca area (?move to Box 48 Bangladesh

material)

Box 83

7/4/5 30.4.1971-

4.6.1974

Folder “Society of Friends of Dacca University”. EAGR

was co-chairman. Reports and correspondence re help of

Friends, papers re lab technicians‟ training scheme in

Cambridge including EAGR draft report on „The

Maintenance of Scientific Laboratories in Bangladesh‟

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written on behalf of committee of Bangladeshi scientists.

Also note on IEA conference in Bangladesh and draft

ASEAN declaration of co-operation (?move to box 48)

7/4/6 1.6.1971-

6.10.1972

Folder “SFDU correspondence July 1971”

Part 5 Africa

Box 84

7/5/1 1929 List Native Churches, notes on Native Welfare Service,

„Report by G St J Orde Browne on his Tour Through the

Belgian Congo and Angola 1929‟, reports of The

Department of Social and Industrial Research of the

International Missionary Council.

7/5/2 1932-1933 Papers from African visit: draft „Economic Adaptation‟

and other sections, itinerary, „The Variations of

Employment in the Mines‟, notes and stats, outline

contents of Report

7/5/3 17.8.54-

6.3.56

Folder “East Africa 1954” Published copy of “Report on

the needs for Economic Research and Investigation in East

Africa” by EAGR published by Uganda Protectorate 1955.

Handwritten draft copy and final draft copy. Notes in

notebook. Various letters discussing the report before

publication

7/5/4 9.6.60-

21.6.61

Folder “Rhodesias 1960” Various official letters

concerning the University College of Rhodesia and

Nyasaland

7/5/5 1961 Typed copy “Report on a preliminary survey of manpower

and resources in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland

7/5/6 1962 Folder “Southern Rhodesia” typed report on manpower by

EAGR

7/5/7 6.7.61-

4.8.67

Folder “Manpower Survey Rhodesia and Nyasaland “ 2

folders containing correspondence mostly concerning

Manpower Survey of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Also

Economic Survey of Kenya, 1961

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Part 6 Far East

Box 85

7/6/1 10.4.1980-

2.2.1990

Folder „Taiwan 1981‟. EAGR as advisor on Overseas

Advisory Associates study „Towards a New Pattern of

Energy and Economic Development of Taiwan‟. Copy of

the proposed terms of reference of study, telexs re

arrangements for members and travel, later copy

correspondence re energy matters, correspondents include

Art Bush, Walker Cisler, TT Feng, Robin Jeffrey, Harry

Tauber, Shirley Kuo and Joe Stanislaw

7/6/2 18.7.1980-

3.2.1981

Folder “Taiwan 1980” Small amount of correspondence

and copy correspondence

7/6/3 c1981 3 folders concerning Taiwan. Includes “Preliminary

attempt to establish the long term trends of the Taiwan

economy” by EAGR. Typescript.

7/6/4 7.1.1987-

3.4.1992

Folder “Taiwan” General correspondence

7/6/5 28.7.1969-

16.7.1972

Folder “Bangkok 1969-“ general correspondence

concerning mostly ASEAN

7/6/6 4.1975- Draft report of Review Mission on the Mekong

Programme

7/6/7 c1947-1950 Papers on Burmese Economy. On the National Income of

Burma 1931-1947, EAGR notes on Burma‟s economy,

paper by J. S. Furnival on Independence, Press statements

on ECA Agreement 1950, 5 official texts on agreement,

report “Financial Institutions and the Mobilization of

Domestic Capital in Burma”, memo on economic

reclassification of budgets in Burma, Burmese

Government Economic Aid Committee project proposals

for Livestock Disease Control and Union Bank of Burma,

history of income tax admin. In Burma

Part 7 Post-war German and Russian visit and Vanoni Plan for Italy

Box 86

7/7/1 18.11.1944 Pass/letter of authority issued to EAGR by British

Embassy, Washington, when on official business in

USA/Canada

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7/7/2 25.5.1945-

6.11.1045

Modern folder “German Trip „45”. MS EAGR diary of

official visit to Germany re reparations, expenses form

from Potsdam Conference; Control Commission for

Germany permit to enter British Element, with ticket, air

movement authority forms, vaccination certificate etc.

7/7/3 16.6.1945-

1985

3 typed copies EAGR “Diary of a Tour Through Germany,

May-June 1945”: 1 that sent to Canon AGR with letter

from secretary; 1 with EAGR letter to JM Keynes about it,

1985 introduction for publication, 1945 photographs not

published, and typescript EAGR letters from Russia as

circulated to economist friends; 1 as prepared for printing

in 1985 with introduction and photographs (suggest put in

printed copy)

7/7/4 17.6.1945-

22.7.1945

Modern envelope file “1945 EAGR in Moscow” in

EAGR‟s hand; diplomatic pass in Russian, EAGR letter

22.7.1945 from Moscow, press reading service summary

re recent travel descriptions

7/7/5 17.11.1954-

2.12.1954

Papers re Vanoni Plan: letter EW Playfair to EAGR

returning papers re Vanoni, copy letter EAGR to F Walter

of OEEC re trip to Rome

7/7/6 Undated Summary of 10 Year Vanoni Development Plan

7/7/7 Undated “Note on Professor Saraceno‟s Outline of a Programme for

Raising the Level of Employment and Income in Italy

1955 to 1964” possibly by EAGR

7/7/8 20.1.1955 OEEC document C (55) 2 “Outline of Development of

Income and Employment in Italy in the Ten-Year Period

1955-64”

7/7/9 10.1954 “Outline of a Programme for Raising the Level of

Employment and Income in Italy, 1955 to 1964”,

presumably by Vanoni

7/7/10 21.5.1951-

c1964

Folder papers re Vanoni Plan: Italian version of EAGR

note on Saraceno‟s plan; draft section 4.2 on balance of

payments; draft sections on need for plan, investments,

housing program, Italian unemployment, structure of

income and employment, objectives; two tables on

household consumption in Italy 1954 and 1964 and other

stats; draft section on consumption; 1951 International

Bank for Reconstruction and Development report on

Development Program of Southern Italy; methodological

note on consumption elasticities; note on 4 year plan 1955-

58 (Italian)

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7/7/11 c1954 Folder draft sections of ten year plan: contents list, aims of

plan, investment for employment, results of development,

balance of payments, program for 1955-1958; MS stats

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Section Eight

IEA Papers

Part 1 Beginnings of IEA

Box 87

8/1/1 7.11.1948-

24.9.1949

Folder labelled “Beginnings of IEA” by EAGR in old age:

copy correspondence re UNESCO meeting to discuss an

International Economic Association; draft agenda for

interim executive committee; draft Articles of IEA and

EAGR Ms notes from meetings. Notes in French by

Perroux on possible French Economic Association, Mossé

on French Association versus IEA, copy Perroux letter

8/1/2 28.10.1948-

29.11.1949

Recent blue folder “Pre-Natal History of IEA”. Mainly

correspondence re setting up of IEA, including with Jaime

Torres Bodet of UNESCO, Robert Mosse, P W Martin

and Dennis Holme Robertson; also meeting papers, draft

statutes etc

8/1/3 11.10.1949-

25.3.1950

Recent blue folder “Early History of IEA” (marked 1 by

archivist). Correspondence, including re appointment of

Howard Ellis as new President of IEA, invitations to

Monaco Conference. Papers from UNESCO meeting of

Secretaries General of International Associations. Some

EAGR general copy correspondence Mar 1950

8/1/4 1.4.1950-

28.7.1950

Recent blue folder “Early History of IEA” (marked 2 by

archivist). Correspondence with Helene Berger Leiser,

preparations for Monaco Conference, minutes Interim

Executive Committee

8/1/5 10.11.1953-

c1962

“Early History of the IEA”. Correspondence with Howard

S Ellis re Ford Foundation grant, application for renewed

grant 1959, draft and typescript reports on IEA activities

1954-9, minutes 4th

Council Meeting, programmes for first

2 Congresses

Part 2 General Administrative Correspondence

Box 88

8/2/1 23.9.1950-

10.4.1951

Bundle of papers comparable with contents of later general

files. General correspondence, mainly re publications;

meeting papers for Council and Executive Committee;

paper for rapporteurs on „The Teaching of Economics‟ by

C W Guillebaud; papers on budget and EAGR Ms notes

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8/2/2 1.4.1950-

3.3.1951

Recent blue folder “IEA 1951”. General administrative

correspondence, including with Helene Berger Leiser and

Elizabeth Henderson; re publication of International

Economic Papers (IEP) and organisation of conferences on

Teaching and Monopoly

8/2/3 23.8.1950-

21.5.1952

Recent blue folder “IEA 1951-2”. General administrative

correspondence. Includes copies of first circular newsletter

of IEA and minutes of second Executive Committee

meeting

8/2/4 25.4.1949-

3.7.1953

Folder “IEA 1952-Sept 1953”. General administrative

correspondence as above; includes re IEA membership of

India and Eire, publication of „Monopoly, Competition

and their Regulation‟ and IEP, organisation of conferences

on Economic Progress and Migration. Text of paper on

monopoly by Edward H Chamberlin

Box 89

8/2/5 2.7.1952-

1.7.1954

Recent blue folder “IEA 1953-4”. General administrative

correspondence. [Gives impression of having been

weeded]

8/2/6 22.6.1954-

23.8.1955

Folder “IEA Oct 1954-5. Miscellaneous”. General

administrative correspondence, including with Helene

Berger Lieser. Includes minutes of Executive Committee

meetings, managing editor‟s report and Note by Asa

Briggs on „Co-Existence and the Economist‟

8/2/7 8.1955-

1.11.1956

Folder “IEA Miscellaneous Sept 1955-Sept 56”. General

administrative correspondence, including with Helene

Berger Lieser. Includes some accounts sheets, report on

IEA activities 1953-6, papers for 3rd

Council Meeting in

Rome, proposals for conference on „The Economics of

Fisheries‟

Box 90

8/2/8 7.10.1956-

22.8.1957

Folder “IEA Miscellaneous Sept 1956-57”. General

administrative correspondence, including with Helene

Berger Leiser and Elizabeth Henderson. Includes proposal

for an IEA translation service

8/2/9 30.9.1957-

13.8.1958

Unlabelled folder of correspondence, equivalent to a

miscellaneous file. General administrative correspondence,

including with Helene Berger Lieser. Includes consolidated

accounts 1956-7, outlines for conferences on transportation

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and public finance, papers re Moscow Association of

Economic Institutes joining IEA

8/2/10 10.3.1962-

16.12.1964

Folder “Correspondence JAM[asterman] with Mary Crook

1962/4”. General administrative correspondence between

EAGR‟s secretary in Cambridge dealing with IEA matters

and the Secretariat in Paris. Includes re publications and

meeting at Cambridge on „Activity Analysis‟

8/2/11 13.9.1962-

14.3.1966

Folder “Correspondence. JAM[asterman] with EAGR”.

Correspondence about IEA matters when EAGR was abroad

8/2/12 3.7.1962-

19.10.1965

Folder “Correspondence. JAM[asterman] miscellaneous”.

Includes re travel arrangements to IEA conferences,

publications, freelance secretarial work, and list of

participants in „Activity Analysis‟ conference, Cambridge

1963. Not in date order

Box 91

8/2/13 17.12.1964-

16.12.1966

Folder “Judith Masterman/Mary Crook 1965-66”. Ditto,

including re publications and meeting at Ditchley Park,

Oxfordshire, on „The Economic Problems of Housing‟

8/2/14 21.3.1973-

8.8.1975

Folder “Lea”. Correspondence between Leonora Woollam

(EAGR secretary) and Mary Crook and others re IEA

matters

8/2/15 23.1.1974-

18.12.1974

Folder “IEA 1974”. General administrative

correspondence with Mary Crook, including re election of

new Executive Committee members and progress of

publications. Includes minutes of Executive Committee

and short MS report by EAGR on 4th

World Congress at

Budapest

8/2/16 10.1.1975-

5.8.1975

Folder “IEA 1975 (includes letters from Mary Crook)”.

General administrative correspondence, mainly re IEA

conferences and publications

8/2/17 13.5.1975-

18.7.1975

Folder “Administrative Secretary of IEA”.

Correspondence between EAGR as Hon. President and

various Government Departments and Oxford and

Cambridge University Appointments Boards re search for

Administrative Secretary to replace Mary Crook

8/2/18 10.9.1975-

3.2.1978

Folder “Mary Crook 1975-”. General administrative

correspondence, including with Mary Crook,

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administrative secretary to IEA. Includes circular letter

EAGR appealing for recollections about the “Cambridge

Circus”

Box 92

8/2/19 7.10.1978- “IEA/M.Crook/Misc”. General administrative correspondence

with IEA secretariat re publications, conferences etc

8/2/20 20.11.1978-

18.9.1992

Reused Folder “IEA General” (“Macmillan 1981” deleted).

Very large file of general administrative correspondence,

including with General Editors Douglas Hague and Michael

Kaser re specific publications and EAGR‟s opposition to

proposal not to publish content of discussions at IEA

conferences. Also EAGR to A B Atkinson re Moscow

Congress, on case for promotion of New Graduate School of

Economics and Development (SEED), section on RES matters

and text of „Economic Growth and Labour Productivity‟ by

Evgeny Kapustin, copy Newsletter 18 for Jan 1991

Box 93

8/2/21 3.2.1981-

10.1.1985

Folder “IEA 1981 M Crook/L Fauvel”. General

administrative correspondence, largely concerning

progress of IEA publications, reprinting of early volumes,

permissions for reproduction of articles

8/2/22 25.11.1980-

16.1.1981

“Future of the IEA”. Correspondence re German criticism

of the way joint conferences were run

8/2/23 c16.8.1978-

30.11.1984

Folder “IEA 1981 Future Policy of”. Correspondence re

proposed changes to Constitution of IEA, including from

EAGR acting on behalf of RES, and re changes in

relationship between UNESCO and IEA. List suggested

amendments to Statutes by Victor L Urquidi. Also general

correspondence including re Mexico City Congress,

Moscow conference proceedings and application for

membership from China

8/2/24 21.9.1984-

25.1.1990

Folder with loose label “IEA 1981 Future Policy of”.

Memo from Luc Fauvel, retired General Secretary, re

proposed amendments to IEA Statutes 1984, Newsletter 11

for July 1986, letter Michael Kaser to EAGR with drafts of

preliminary pages of 1958 Bursa Conference proceedings

as published in 1990. EAGR wrote the foreword

8/2/25 7.10.1959- Folder “IEA Secretaryship”, file label “Secretariat”.

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20.3.1973 Correspondence, largely re resignation of Helene Berger

Leiser and future of IEA Secretariat in Paris, also about

appointment of Luc Fauvel as Secretary-General and Mary

Crook as Administrative Secretary, salaries and EAGR

expenses. Includes EAGR paper on the future

administration of the IEA.

8/2/26 20.10.1962-

29.3.1963

Folder labelled “Liesl and Lene” by EAGR in old age. 2

long letters from Elisabeth Henderson to EAGR giving

biographical details of late Helene Berger Lieser for

EAGR to publish an obituary, 1 later with copy reply from

EAGR‟s secretary

Note 1986 applications for PA to Admin Secretary weeded

Part 3 Finance

8/3/1 31.12.1961-

14.3.1966

Folder “IEA Tax Position”, file label “Finance – Income

Tax”. Correspondence with Macmillans the publishers and

UK tax authorities about IEA liability for tax on royalties.

Includes 1963 accounts of royalties on sales of IEA books

Box 94

8/3/2 13.9.1962-

26.7.1971

Folder “Finance”. Correspondence and papers re grant

funding of IEA conferences, most with the Ford

Foundation. Includes discussion paper for „Planner

Seminar in Colombo on the Green Revolution in South

Asia‟ and meeting papers for 6th

IEA Council Meeting in

Rome 1965

Part 4 Council and Executive Committee

Box 95

8/4/1 9.4.1954-

8.9.1956

Folder “(bits) IEA Executive Meeting Kitzbühel 1955”.

Miscellaneous re First IEA Congress in Rome 1956

including printed programme, draft procedure for

meetings, invitation cards to social events; correspondence

re Seelisburg Round Table arrangements and draft

programme and re grant from Ford Foundation. Folder

does not contain anything about Kitzbühel meeting itself

8/4/2 7.2.1956-

10.7.1957

Folder “Rome 1956 Executive and Council Meetings”.

Verbatim report of proceedings and minutes of 3rd

Council

Meeting, list of members of Council. Verbatim reports of

sessions of Executive Committee, editor‟s report,

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consolidated balance sheet 1953-5, list participants at 1st

IEA Congress in Rome, programme for Refresher Course

in Malaya, Sept 1956. Ms notes by EAGR

8/4/3 8.1957-

25.9.1959

Folder “Executive Committee Lisbon 1957”. Draft

agenda, verbatim report proceedings of Executive

Committee meetings, also reports to Committee with

accounts, from managing editor, on IEA activities 1956-7.

Drafts of note by EAGR on application for membership

from new association of Russian academic teachers. Other

applications for membership from Bolivia, Spain, Hong

Kong and Mexico City. List participants at Lisbon Round

Table Conference on „Economic Consequences of the Size

of Nations‟. Proposal by Jean Marchal for conference on

National Revenue

8/4/4 19.8.1958-

18.1.1961

Folder “Executive Committee Corfu 1958”. Draft agenda,

verbatim report proceedings of Executive Committee

meetings, reports on activities and expenditure of IEA

1957-8, on Refresher Course at Murree, Pakistan. Draft

consolidated accounts 1957 by EAGR with final

typescript, draft programme for Round Table Conference

on Inflation at Elsinore, Denmark 1959, applications for

membership from Czechoslovakia and Bolivia. Proposals

for future conferences on Transportation by John P Carter

and Public Finance by A J Peacock, note by Howard S

Ellis on delayed publication of proceedings of Rio de

Janeiro Conference. Proofs of section of proceedings of

Corfu Conference, „The Theory of Capital‟, by Nicholas

Kaldor

8/4/5 23.2.1959-

22.10.1959

Folder “IEA Papers for Elsinore” [1959]. Agenda for

Executive Committee meeting, list of delegates, minutes

of 1957 meeting, draft minutes of 1958 meeting. Various

IEA accounts for 1949-1960 including drafts. Reports on

activities and expenditure of IEA 1956-9 and 1957-8,

applications for membership from Argentina and Bulgaria,

copy contract with UNESCO for preparation of reports,

order form for IEA publications. Programme for Elsinore

Round Table Conference on „Inflation‟ and draft proposals

for conferences on the Economics of Take-Off, Economic

Development in South Asia and Economic Policy of

Africa South of the Sahara

8/4/6 15.3.1960-

9.1960

Folder “IEA Executive Konstanz 1960”. Agenda for

Executive Committee meeting at Konstanz, minutes

including draft. Consolidated accounts 1956-9, draft

budget 1961, copy letter re Ford Foundation grant.

Application for membership from Hungary. Lists of

contents of International Economic Papers volume 10,

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jobs for IEA Officers arising from Executive Committee

meeting.

8/4/7 1956-

9.1962

IEA envelope file “Professor Austin Robinson. Council

Documents”. Papers from 5th

meeting of Council of IEA

held during Vienna Congress 29 Aug 1962 and from

Executive Committee meetings Aug-Sept 1962. Agendas

for all these meetings. Report to the Council 1956, Report

on activities and expenses of IEA to the Council 1959,

Interim Report on activities 1959-61. 1962 reports on

International Economic Papers, on finances, activities

1959-62 and on subjects for future conferences. List of

decisions made at 5th

Council meeting, notes on UNESCO

subsidies, Ms notes made by EAGR during meetings

8/4/8 7.1967-

8.11.1967

Folder “Executive Committee, Varenna 1967”. Minutes of

meeting of 27 Aug 1967 and report on IEA activities

1966-7, draft minutes annotated by EAGR. Note on

progress of IEA publications and EAGR Ms notes

Box 96

8/4/9/1

8/4/9/2

17.6.1971-

21.11.1973

2 folders bundled together “IEA 1973” and “Members of

IEA 1971, Members of RES Council 1973”. First is

correspondence, mainly re Presidency of IEA, and includes

report on European Research Workshop in Rheda,

Germany and minutes of Executive Committee. Second is

very miscellaneous IEA and RES material including re

Ricardo Exhibition, membership lists, report on IEA

European Workshop on Economic Theory, MS draft

EAGR report on „First Stage of Mission to Assist the

Indian Ministry of Irrigation and Power‟ for Overseas

Development Administration and typescript note on

„Power Economy Committee‟ originally written for K L

Rao

8/4/10 19.1.1976-

15.12.1980

Loose papers, most from IEA Council and Executive

Committee meetings held during the Sixth World

Congress in Mexico City 1980. Drafts of decisions and

minutes of retiring Executive Committee, draft and

minutes 11th

meeting of Council and meeting of newly-

elected Executive Committee, Report to Council, list of

participants, Swedish Association conference proposal on

structural adjustment. Also letter and outline plan re

„Alternative Sources of Energy Conference‟, 4 letters re

IEA publications, copy correspondence re Douglas Hague

taking over as General Editor, and re donations from

Banks

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8/4/11 20.5.1981 Photocopy of note by EAGR on future of IEA, written for

Executive Committee meeting which he could not attend

8/4/12 15.4.1983-

3.9.1983

Green folder of papers that may be for 12th

meeting of IEA

Council at San Sebastian, Spain, September 1983. Include

provisional programme for Kiel Conference, summary of

IEA activities 1980-3, curricula vitae prospective office

holders, draft programme and papers re Madrid Congress,

report on Statutes, EAGR report on publications 1980-3,

newsletter 5, draft minutes of 12th

meeting of the Council

8/4/13 6.1984-

7.1984

Unlabelled folder of Executive Committee meeting papers

for 17 Jun 1984 in Germany, including reports on

finances, proposed amendments to Statutes, report of

activities, proposals for conferences on “Decentalised

Policy Design”, “East/West Trade” and “Business Cycle

Theory”

8/4/14 2.2.1992-

1.4.1993

EAGR‟s copies of minutes of IEA Executive Committee

and Council meetings held in Moscow, Aug 1992, IEA

and Macmillans meeting re publications. Papers on

proposal for „A New Graduate School of Economics and

Economic Development (SEED) as an International Center

of Excellence in a Third-World Country‟ including

dissenting paper by Don Patinkin

8/4/15 28.12.1961-

16.12.1969

Folder “Associations applying for membership”.

Correspondence re applications from Economic Societies

of various countries to become member associations of

IEA

8/4/16 1.6.1962-

8.6.1965

Folder “Presidency 1962; 1965”. Correspondence between

EAGR and Howard S Ellis, Gottfried Haberler and W A

Jöhr re candidates for IEA Presidency in 1962, EAGR with

Haberler, Bernard F Haley and Paul Samuelson re

nomination of Samuelson in 1965

Part 5 Conferences and Round-tables

Box 97

8/5/1 9.1950 - Unlabelled folder of early Committee papers: Statutes;

financial report; meeting papers for Council and first

Conference in Monaco Sep 1950 including conference

papers by Johan Akerman, Colin Clark, G A Elliott, S

Herbert Frankel, Gottfried Haberler, N Kaldor, Wilhem

Keilhau, B S Keirstead, Wassily Leontief, D H Robertson,

J Tinbergen, and Pierre Uri; paper by EAGR “The Long

Term Problems of the United Kingdom in Relation to

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International Trade”

8/5/2 14.12.1951-

14.10.1954

Folder “IEA Monopoly”. Correspondence re publication of

E H Chamberlin „Monopoly and Competition and their

Regulation‟ (1954), proceedings of Talloires Conference

of 1951. Also a small amount on „The Teaching of

Economics‟

8/5/3 17.2.1953-

24.4.1953

Folder “Monopoly”. Correspondence about progress of

publication of E H Chamberlin „Monopoly and

Competition and their Regulation‟ (1954), proceedings of

Talloires Conference 1951. Mainly on corrections to

proofs

8/5/4 10.3.1953-

18.8.1954

Folder “IEA Teaching Report”. Correspondence re

publication of „The University Teaching of Social

Sciences: Economics‟ (1954), the proceedings of the

Talloires Conference, 1951, organised by IEA and

UNESCO

8/5/5 3.12.1952-

29.11.1955

Folder “IEA Business Cycles”. Correspondence re

publication of E Lundberg „The Business Cycle in the

Post-War World‟ (1955), proceedings of Oxford

Conference of 1952. Also some re „Monopoly and

Competition and Their Regulation‟

8/5/6 20.9.1953-

20.5.1954

Folder “IEA. [Economic] Progress 1953. Publication of

Report”. Correspondence re progress of publication of

„Economic Progress‟ edited by Léon Dupriez assisted by

Douglas C Hague (1955), the proceedings of IEA

Conference at Santa Margherita Ligure 1953. Includes text

of paper by Evsey D Domar

8/5/7 9.9.1953-

13.8.1957

Folder “Seelisberg”. Correspondence re organisation of

IEA conference in Seelisberg in 1954 on „The Theory of

Wage Determination‟ and on progress of publication of the

proceedings, edited by John T Dunlop

Box 98

8/5/8 14.9.1953-

5.12.1955

Folder “IEA 1955. Philosophical Foundations”.

Correspondence and draft outline of proposed conference

on „The Philosophical Foundations of Economics‟

8/5/9 11.9.1953-

24.1.1958

Folder “IEA 1955 Migration”. Correspondence re

organisation of IEA Round Table Conference on „The

Economics of International Migration‟ at Kitzbühel,

Austria 1955 and on publication of its proceedings, edited

by Brinley Thomas

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8/5/10 11.9.1953-

8.1956

Folder “Rio de Janeiro: Economic Development for Latin

America 1957”. Correspondence re organisation of Round

Table on „Economic Development for Latin America‟,

main organiser Howard S Ellis

8/5/11 16.12.1954-

3.12.1959

Folder “IEA Size of Nations 1957”. Correspondence re

planning of Lisbon Conference of 1957 and publication of

the proceedings, edited by EAGR „The Economic

Consequences of the Size of Nations‟ (1960). Includes

detailed report of last session of conference

Box 99

8/5/12 4.5.1955-

4.8.1958

Folder “IEA Peaceful Co-existence”. Correspondence re

organisation of a conference on cooperation between East

and West economies, jointly organised by UNESCO and

IEA. After various changes of plan, the conference took

place at Bursa, Turkey in 1958, EAGR being rapporteur to

UNESCO. Includes sections of the draft report and paper

on production by EAGR

8/5/13 18.10.1957-

15.4.1959

Folder “UNESCO Peaceful Co-operation Programme”.

Mainly UNESCO reports arising from Inter-Disciplinary

Conference on International Understanding and Peaceful

Co-operation held in Prague Sept 1958, with some

correspondence. Working paper and final report of the

conference, reports from earlier meetings of political

scientists and sociologists. Summary translations of papers

from conference of Economists. Copies of 2 different

printings of EAGR report to UNESCO „The Economic

Problems of Peaceful Collaboration‟ arising from IEA

Bursa Conference on „Co-operation between East and

West Economies‟

8/5/14 7.1956-

22.1.1958

Unlabelled folder of papers relating to conference with

Eastern European Economists on “The Level and Structure

of National Production and Their Determining Factors”.

Typescript note presented to V P Dyachenko by EAGR

and E Lindahl, outline programme by V P Dyachenko and

EAGR, draft paper by Robert Triffin on costs of

production, EAGR Ms notes on same subject, draft by

Gottfried Haberler on peaceful cooperation

Box 100

8/5/15 4.10.1957-

7.10.1958

Folder “IEA Capital Theory 1958”. Correspondence re

organisation of Capital Theory Conference in Corfu, Sept

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1958, mainly re participants

8/5/16 9.1958-

21.11.1958

Folder “IEA Conference on Public Finance”. Outline of

arrangements as discussed at Executive Committee Sept

1958 and correspondence with Alan Peacock about

proposed conference

8/5/17 18.12.1958-

21.4.1960

Folder “IEA Japan”. Correspondence re organisation of

round-table conference on „Economic Development with

Special Reference to East Asia‟ held at Gamagori, Japan in

1960. Includes 3 versions of EAGR paper „Foreign Trade

in a Developing Economy‟, 2 typescript and one typescript

with substantial Ms additions, possibly the published

version

8/5/18 24.5.1960-

14.10.1960

Folder “Rostow: Economics of Take-off into Sustained

Growth. 1960”. Correspondence with Walter W Rostow

and others re organisation of IEA Round Table Conference

at Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany and publication

of proceedings

8/5/19 2.6.1960-

26.7.1962

Folder “Rostow: Economics of Take-off into Sustained

Growth”, file label “Publications in English: Rostow…”

Small amount of correspondence re publication of W W

Rostow „The Economics of Take-Off into Sustained

Growth‟ (1963), the proceedings of IEA Conference at

Konstanz 1960. Includes French text of paper by J

Marczewski

8/5/20 11.11.1959-

24.6.1961

Folder labelled “Africa: Regional Conference

Correspondence: 1960”. Papers re organisation of

“Economic Development South of the Sahara” in Addis

Ababa 1961; also re UNESCO course in Rabat for French-

speaking African Economists. Draft report to Council on

IEA activities 1959-1961 and Memorandum of Agreement

with Macmillans to publish „Trade in a Developing World‟

8/5/21 3.5.1961-

23.1.1962

Folder “Economic Development for Africa South of the

Sahara. 1961”. Requests for copies of papers given at

Addis Abbaba conference and copy letters to Secretaries of

State inviting nominations for participants in Refresher

Course held in Addis Ababa in July 1961. EAGR was the

main organiser of the two events

8/5/22 24.11.1961 Letter Mary Crook to EAGR enclosing hand drawn map of

Angola illustrating paper by Pinto presented at Addis

Ababa conference on „Economic Development of Africa

South of the Sahara‟

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8/5/23 17.8.1961 Letter Bill Taylor to EAGR giving corrections to his paper

on „Problems of the Economic Development of the

Rhodesias and Nyasaland‟ given at Addis Ababa

conference

8/5/24 24.5.1960-

3.11.1960

Folder “Harrod and Hague: International Trade Theory in a

Developing World. 1961”. Correspondence with Roy F

Harrod and others re organisation of IEA Conference on

„International Trade in a Developing World‟ held at

Brissago, Switzerland. Includes draft programmes and lists

of participants

8/5/25 4.7.1957-

20.5.1964

Folder “IEA Jöehr Economic Science and Economic

Policy”. Correspondence with W A Jöehr re proposed

conference on „Dealing with Problems of Economic

Policy‟ and with organising committee of its later title

„Labour Productivity‟. Includes additional correspondence

with John T Dunlop and one 1964 letter about publication

of proceedings

8/5/26 19.12.1957-

5.5.1958

Folder “Labour Productivity I Correspondence”. Letters

between EAGR and John T Dunlop re proposed

conference, which was held in Cadenabbia, Italy in 1961

8/5/27 19.12.1960-

22.5.1961

Folder “Labour Productivity III Accounts”.

Correspondence between John T Dunlop and IEA

administration re budget for conference, 2 cash books kept

by EAGR listing expenses of organising committee and

notes taken at meetings

Box 101

8/5/28 30.12.1961-

18.7.1963

Folder “Economics of Education (1) Menthon St Bernard

1963”. Correspondence with participants at IEA

conference on „The Economics of Education‟ separated

into those who were giving papers and others. EAGR was

chairman of programme committee

8/5/29 29.11.1961-

17.12.1963

Folder “Economics of Education (2) Menthon St Bernard

1963”. General correspondence re organisation of

conference and the programme, including notes for EAGR

introductory speech

8/5/30 1966 Marked copy for printers of title pages and pp 39-44 of

“Price Formation in Various Economies”, proceedings of

IEA conference held in Israel March 1964

8/5/31 9.1965 Typescript EAGR paper „The Desirable Level of

Agriculture in the Advanced Industrial Economies‟ given

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at IEA Conference on „Economic Problems of Agriculture

in Industrial Societies and Repercussions in Developing

Countries‟ held in Rome, September 1965

8/5/32 12.5.1965-

7.12.1967

Folder “September 1966 Conference”. Correspondence re

organisation of joint IEA and Centre National de la

Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) conference on „Analysis

of the Public Economy‟ at Biarritz, France 1966. One item

on „Risk and Uncertainty‟ conference of same year

8/5/33 7.6.1966-

1.12.1966

Folder “1967. Backward Areas in Advanced Countries”.

Correspondence re organisation of joint IEA and Vienna

Centre conference held in Varenna, Italy in July 1967 for

which EAGR was main organiser. Includes text EAGR

paper „Location Theory, Regional Economics and

Backward Areas‟ and draft programmes

Box 102

8/5/34 25.4.1966-

2.10.1967

Unlabelled folder of correspondence re organisation of

conference on „Backward Areas in Advanced Countries‟.

Includes list of participants and 2 research papers on

related subjects

8/5/35 23.4.1968-

23.10.1969

Folder “Regional Conference in South Asia. Ceylon

1969”. General correspondence re organisation of IEA

conference on „Economic Development in South Asia‟

held in Kandy, Ceylon 1969. EAGR was the main

organiser

Box 103

8/5/36 29.7.1970-

25.9.1970

Loose papers from IEA Conference on „The Gap Between

the Rich and the Poor Nations‟ held at Bled, Yugoslavia,

1970. Copy Prof Šefei‟s introductory speech, list of

participants, programme, copies most of papers given, put

in order of sessions

8/5/37 11.8.1970-

17.8.1970

and undated

Loose papers re IEA conference on „The Gap Between

Rich and Poor Nations‟ held at Bled, Yugoslavia in 1970.

Includes draft programme, some of papers given,

Executive Committee papers including reports on previous

conferences by EAGR

8/5/38 7.9.1972-

19.1.1976

Reused folder “Moscow Conference”. Correspondence re

organisation of conference on „Long Term Planning and

Forecasting‟ in Dec 1972, and on publication of

proceedings in Russian and English. EAGR was

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responsible for English version

8/5/39 4.8.1972-

12.1.1973

Folder “Dacca Conference”[1973]. Correspondence re

organisation of conference on „The Economic

Development of Bangladesh Within the Framework of a

Socialist Economy‟, mainly with participants. Includes

draft schemes, report on conference which may be by

EAGR and draft of acknowledgements for published

volume

Box 104

8/5/40 2.1974-

9.5.1977

Folder “Conference on Appropriate Technologies 1976”.

Correspondence re organisation of Conference on

„Appropriate Technologies‟ in Teheran 1976. Within the

file some correspondence is labelled and arranged roughly

alphabetically. Includes EAGR notes „Some Thoughts on

“Appropriate Technologies”‟ (Vienna, February 1974) and

„Appropriate Industrial Technologies for Developing

Countries‟ (Cambridge, July 1975), plan for conference on

„Econometric Contributions to public Policy‟ and minutes

of Executive Committee meeting at Saltsjöbaden 1975

8/5/41 2.1974-

8.12.1979

Folder “EAG Robinson”. Correspondence re organisation

of conference on „Appropriate Technologies‟ in Teheran

1976 and on publication of the Proceedings edited by

EAGR. Also miscellaneous IEA papers - audited accounts

for 1974, statement from Kiel Symposium on „The

Organisation and Retrieval of Economic Knowledge‟,

plans for proposed conferences on „Personal Income

Distribution‟, „Private and Public Enterprise in a Mixed

Economy‟ and for 5th

Congress in Japan 1977,

programmes for conferences on „Inflation Theory and

Anti-Inflation Policy‟ at Saltsjöbaden, Sweden and

„Economic Relations Between Different Economic

Systems‟ at Dresden, German Democratic Republic.

8/5/42 28.11.1975-

25.8.1981

Folder “IEA Cambridge Book (RCOM)”. Correspondence

and papers re organisation of 1979 Cambridge Conference

on „The Finance of Public Activities‟ and publication of

proceedings, including conference report by Robin

Matthews. The proceedings were entitled „The Grants

Economy and Collective Consumption‟, edited by Robin C

O Matthews and Bernard Stafford. Also correspondence re

Pune Round table Conference on „Employment Policies in

Developing Countries‟ 1980, appropriate technology and E

Malinvaud paper for Obernai Conference

8/5/43 26.9.1977- Folder “IEA Indian Book”. Correspondence re

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4.1.1984 organisation of joint IEA and Indian Economic

Association Conference at Pune, India on „Employment

Policy in a Developing Country; a Case Study of India‟ in

March 1980 and publication of 2 volumes of proceedings

edited by EAGR, P R Brahmananda and L K Deshpande

8/5/44 1.1980 and

undated

Loose papers about the Pune Conference. Note on agreed

scheme of conference including list of papers, 2 versions

of provisional programme, information sheet for

participants

Box 105

8/5/45 1952-

7.4.1965

Folder “Old participants‟ lists – for addresses”. Almost

complete series of lists of names and addresses of

participants in IEA conferences. Also some programmes

and lists of members of OEEC Energy Advisory

Committee and delegates to UNESCO Peaceful Co-

operation Conference 1958

Part 6 Open Congresses

8/6/1 29.10.1954-

12.3.1958

Reused folder “IEA Congress”. Correspondence re

organisation of First IEA Congress in Rome 1956 on

„Stability and Progress in the World Economy‟ and on

publication of its proceedings, edited by D C Hague.

Includes first part of participants‟ list, publicity leaflet and

newspaper article including photograph of delegates with

the Pope

8/6/2 8.5.1961-

9.8.1962

Untitled folder of papers (out of date order), mainly

correspondence re organisation of Second IEA Congress in

Vienna on “Economic Development” 1962. Includes

details of entertainment programme. Also 2 notes on

Cambridge Printing House, IEA Council agenda 1961,

programme for Addis Ababa refresher course 1961, copy

IEA Statutes of 1950, draft programme for „Economics of

Education‟ conference, list of participants in conference on

„Theory of Interest Rates‟ at Royaumont, France 1962

8/6/3 22.5.1959-

11.10.1963

Folder “Problems in Economic Development (Vienna) 1

General Administration”. Correspondence re organisation

of Second IEA Congress in Vienna 1962. Includes text

EAGR opening speech and reports of section chairmen to

final plenary session

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Box 106

8/6/4 5.3.1962-

11.8.1962

Folder “Problems in Economic Development (Vienna) 3

Section 1. 1962”. Correspondence with writers of papers

for section 1 of Congress on „Determinants of Economic

Development‟ of which EAGR was chairman

8/6/5 23.3.1961-

6.9.1962

Folder “Problems in Economic Development (Vienna) 3

Section 2. 1962”. Correspondence re organisation of

section 2 of Congress on „Industrialisation and Methods of

Increasing Labour Productivity‟ of which Clark Kerr was

chairman

8/6/6 22.3.1962-

16.8.1962

Folder “Problems in Economic Development (Vienna) 4

Section 3. 1962”. Correspondence re organisation of

section 3 of Congress on „Techniques and problems of

Development Planning‟ of which J Tinbergen was

chairman

8/6/7 2.2.1961-

23.8.1962

Folder “Problems in Economic Development (Vienna) 4

Section 4. 1962”. Correspondence re organisation of

section 4 of Congress on „The Stabilisation of Primary

Producing Economies‟ of which W Arthur Lewis was

chairman

8/6/8 24.9.1962-

5.1.1963

Folder “Problems in Economic Development (Vienna) 5

Plenary Session Report. 1962”. Correspondence re

copying and distribution of the Reports of Section

Chairmen at the Final Plenary Session of Vienna

Congress. Includes annotated list of participants and texts

of reports as submitted

Box 107

8/6/9 23.5.1974-

29.7.1974

and undated

Loose papers from the IEA 4th

World Congress in

Budapest, Hungary on „Economic Integration‟ 1974.

Correspondence, EAGR notes and doodles of biplanes, list

of contributed papers, reports of proceedings of working

groups C and H. Copies of 32 discussion papers given at

working groups of the Congress. Most papers are from

section H „Integration of Less Developed Areas and of

Areas on Different Levels of Development‟, 10 of 12

numbered by EAGR, rest put alphabetically by author

8/6/10 4.5.1977-

17.10.1977

Folder “IEA World Congress 1977”. List of organisation

of plenary sessions at IEA World Congress in Tokyo,

small amount correspondence on publication of

proceedings and on photographs of EAGR in Japan

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Box 108

8/6/11 30.8.1980-

13.7.1984

Folder “IEA Mexico City Book”. Correspondence re

progress of publication of 5 volumes of proceedings of

Sixth World Congress held in Mexico City 1980 under

general title „Human Resources, Employment and

Development‟. These were the last volumes for which

EAGR was General Editor

8/6/12 19.12.1985-

25.3.1986

Folder “IEA Delhi Congress 1986”. Correspondence re

organisation of Eighth World Congress held in New Delhi,

Dec 1986 on „The Balance Between Industry and

Agriculture in Economic Development‟. Most is with

Kenneth Arrow or P R Brahmananda, includes Congress

brochure and IEA Newsletter 10 for Jan 1986

Part 7 Refresher Courses

8/7/1 8.6.1954-

13.10.1955

Folder “Refresher Course. India 1955”. Correspondence re

organisation of IEA „Refresher Course for Teachers of

Advanced Economics‟ at Pune [Poona], India, June-July

1955. EAGR and C N Vakil were the main organisers.

Includes reports on the course

8/7/2 5.10.1955-

6.11.1956

Folder “IEA Far East Course”. Correspondence re

organisation of Refresher Courses in Karachi and

Singapore in 1956 including with organisers M L Qureshi

and Thomas H Silcock. Letter Silcock to EAGR giving

progress report on the course. Copy of „Pakistan

Economist‟ including report on course and photograph of

participants. Also papers on Conference of Heads of

University Economics Departments in SE Asia held in

Malaya, Sept 1956

Box 109

8/7/3 6.11.1956-

31.10.1958

Folder “IEA Pakistan Refresher Course 1958”.

Correspondence re organisation of IEA Refresher Course

at Murree, Pakistan, on the Economics of Development,

July-August 1958. EAGR and A J Brown were the main

organisers

8/7/4 20.6.1961

and undated

Folder “IEA Refresher Courses (post 1958)”. Lists of

participants in course for English-speaking Economists in

Africa, Addis Ababa July 1961

8/7/5 22.10.1964- Folder “Indian Refresher Course”. Correspondence re

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30.1.1967 organisation of Refresher Course in Economics held in

Pune [Poona], India in 1966. Includes report on course by

the director, V M Dandekar

8/7/6 29.7.1966-

13.3.1969

Folder “1968 Pakistan Refresher Course”. Correspondence

re attempts to organise a Refresher Course in Pakistan

Part 8 Publications

8/8/1 1.5.1962-

7.9.1971

Folder “Publications – Policy”, additional file label “IEA

Publications in English by Macmillans”. Correspondence,

mainly with Macmillans, re IEA publications‟ policy and

progress of volumes through the Press, distribution of

specific volumes and with authors re individual papers

from conferences. EAGR had overall responsibility for

IEA publications

8/8/2 28.10.1959-

15.3.1971

Folder “Permission to Reprint in English”, additional file

label “IEA Reprints and Translations”. Correspondence re

permission to reprint papers originally published in IEA

volumes

8/8/3 26.4.1960-

10.2.1970

Folder “IEA Publications in Spanish”. Correspondence re

permissions to publish Spanish translations of IEA

publications

Box 110

8/8/4 5.11.1951-

3.8.1970

Folder IEA I[nternational] E[conomic] P[apers]”. Mainly

correspondence between EAGR and Elizabeth [Liesl or L]

Henderson, managing editor, re production policy of

International Economic Papers and between EAGR and

other editors. IEP were planned by the IEA to translate into

English important articles published in less widely known

languages. They published 12 volumes between 1951 and

1967. Also includes lists of contents of volumes, records

of sales, editors‟ reports to Executive Committee, letters

with Macmillans publishers and re reprint rights

8/8/5 23.9.1952-

26.4.1955

Folder “IEA. UNESCO bibliography”. Correspondence

and papers re International Committee on Documentation

in the Social Sciences, relating to the publication of a

bibliography of Economics. Includes committee minutes,

reports on the first draft and text of basic bibliography of

Political Science by J Barents

8/8/6 27.12.1961-

1.4.1969

Folder “Text Book of Economics for Africa”.

Correspondence and papers re UNESCO funded IEA

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project to produce a textbook of economics for African

students. Preliminary working paper written by David

Walker, textbook by H M A Onitiri

Box 111

8/8/7 5.4.1971-

28.1.1974

Folder “Macmillan Etc”. Correspondence between EAGR

and Macmillans the Publishers about both IEA and RES

publications, also re Report on A level Business Studies

Syllabus. Includes text of EAGR introductions for

„Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries‟ and

„Economic Development of Bangladesh‟ and re proofs,

book jacket designs, translations, permissions for

reprinting

8/8/8 15.1.1974-

13.12.1974

Folder “Macmillan”. Correspondence between EAGR and

Macmillans the Publishers about both IEA and RES

publications, also re translations of Alfred Marshall works.

Includes EAGR draft introduction for „Methods of Long-

term Planning and Forecasting‟

8/8/9 25.6.1974-

3.12.1975

Folder “Macmillan 1975”. Correspondence between

EAGR and Macmillans the Publishers about both IEA and

RES publications, including edition of Jevons Papers

8/8/10 21.12.1976-

20.2.1981

Folder “Macmillan 1977”. Correspondence between

EAGR and Macmillans the Publishers about both IEA and

RES publications

8/8/11 9.11.1981-

23.11.1981

Loose copy correspondence sent to EAGR re publication

of proceedings of Moscow Conference on „The Economics

of Long-distance Transportation‟, edited by T S

Khachaturov and P B Goodwin

8/8/12 9.1982 Loose photocopy EAGR „Note on Editorial Problems of

International Economic Association‟s Books‟ prepared for

Executive Committee before EAGR gave up being IEA

general editor

8/8/13 2.3.1986 Letter Patricia M Hillebrandt to EAGR re her appointment

as Conference Editor, enclosing notes on future editing of

IEA volumes

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Section Nine

Other Organisations

Part 1 General Organisations

Box 112

9/1/1 15.3.1974-

3.10.1980

Folder “British Academy 1974-5” and “British Academy

1975-6”. General correspondence and copy

correspondence regarding the Academy

9/1/2 29.1.1989-

16.10.1992

Folder „British Academy‟, EAGR a member of section 9

[check]. Copy correspondence, including to GDN

Worswick and Robin Matthews re recommendation of

Fitoussi for membership, various invitations

9/1/3 23.6.1953-

6.1.1956

Folder “British Association Section F, 1954” Documents

and correspondence regarding the British Association for

the Advancement of Science

9/1/4 17.8.1954-

22.6.1955

Folder „British Railways‟. Correspondence re EAGR work

on long-term forecasting of rail traffic for the British

Transport Commission, mainly with David Blee. Claude

W Guillebaud had recommended him for this work.

Report „British Transport 1953‟ and 2 papers on

modernisation and re-equipment of railways

9/1/5 31.7.1963-

1.8.1963

Folder “Business Economist‟s Group 1963” Small amount

of correspondence

9/1/6 15.11.1952-

29.9.1961

Folder “Colonial Economic Research Committee 1960-1”

Large amount of correspondence and official documents

for CERC

Box 113

9/1/7 6.2.1962-

4.11.1965

Folder “Department of Technical Cooperation 1963-“

Letter of thanks to EAGR for service on Colonial Research

Committee. Expenses for EAGR work in India. Role of

industrialisation in developing countries.

9/1/8 23.7.1954-

12.12.1956

Folder “DSIR Advisory Council 1954-1956” Various

correspondence

9/1/9 6.11.1972-

9.11.1977

Folder “Economic Science and Economic Policy”

Includes correspondence and copy correspondence. Often

regarding Bangladesh

9/1/10 2.5.1957- Folder „Ford Fellowships Project 1960‟. Correspondence

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29.7.1960 and notes on talk re proposed project to fund students in

Economics from under-developed countries to study at

Cambridge, Oxford or London. EAGR originally involved

as Secretary to IEA. Correspondents include Kermit

Gordon, John R Hicks, Daniel N Chester, Lionel Robbins,

Stanley Dennison

Box 114

9/1/11 25.11.1952-

20.2.1959

Folder “ ISSC International Social Science Council”

General correspondence and copy correspondence

9/1/12 10.11.1967-

18.3.1969

Folder „Ministry of Power 1967-„. Correspondence re

EAGR acting as temporary Director of Economics,

lecturing on fuel policy at the Centre for Administrative

Studies and the difficulties of recruiting economists to the

Treasury

9/1/13 c1974 Folder “Overseas Advisory Associates 1974-5” General

correspondence

9/1/14 23.9.1965-

10.3.1967

Folder „Treasury – Working Party on Management

Training in Civil Service‟. EAGR a member of this

committee, appointed November 1965 under chairmanship

of S P Osmond. Correspondence and draft final report

9/1/15 7.7.1970-

28.10.1972

Folder „Social Science Research Council‟. Papers for joint

meeting of learned societies to discuss co-operation in

administration, one on RES written by EAGR as Secretary.

Report on proceedings by Henry Phelps Brown, invitation

to conference on technical progress

Part 2 Education

Box 115

9/2/1 28.4.1964-

27.5.1965

Folder „Inter-University Council for Higher Education

Overseas. 1964-„ Correspondence arising from EAGR‟s

work as external assessor for the Council. Includes

references, letters about Charles Middleton Elliott, Dr

Ngcobo and HMA Onitiri

9/2/2 14.2.1967-

11.12.1967

Folder „Business Studies in Schools 1967‟.

Correspondence and papers re Wolfson Business Studies

Project to introduce Business Studies Advanced level.

EAGR was chairman of University of Cambridge Local

Examinations Syndicate Sub-Committee and an examiner

for the new A level course

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9/2/3 c1973 Folder “Teaching of Economics in Schools 1973 cont”

General correspondence much regarding the Economic

Association

9/2/4 12.12.1973-

19.12.1974

Folder “Teaching of Economics in Schools 1974” General

correspondence. The “Briault Report observations of K F

R Phillips”

9/2/5 20.12.1974-

7.3.1979

Folder “Teaching of Economics in schools 1975” General

correspondence and documents of the Economic

Association

Part 3 National Institute

Box 116

9/3/1

11.4.1986-

6.12.1991

Folder „National Institute‟ [of Economic and Social

Research]. Copy correspondence including with Kenneth

Berrill, typescript EAGR „The National Institute – The

Early Years‟

9/3/2 25.9.1946-

8.12.1958

Folder “National Institute” large folder of general

correspondence

9/3/3 19.12.1963-

18.10.1972

Folder “National Institute of Economic and Social

Research 1964” general correspondence

Part 4 Overseas Development Institute

Box 117

9/4/1 11.9.1981-

6.9.1992

Folder „ODI‟ [Overseas Development Institute]. EAGR

was one of three joint founders. Meeting papers of Council

and correspondence, mainly EAGR comments on research

papers, draft history of first 25 years of the Institute by

William Clark

9/4/2 25.2.1986-

29.1.1991

Recent folder “ODI”. Correspondence EAGR to officials

of ODI, list 1990 Council members including EAGR,

minutes Jan 1991 Council and Finance and General

Purposes Committee meetings

9/4/3 c1962

File labelled by EAGR “ODI Africa”. Typescript and Ms

draft part of EAGR paper „Britain and Africa‟, typescript

of finished paper „The Needs of Africa‟

9/4/4 26.4.1989- Folder „ODI‟. Correspondence, including re election of

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26.6.1990 Peter Nolan to Council, Partha Dasgupta and John

Thomson on India, to officers of ODI on geographical

balance of their research work

9/4/5 c1975 Folder “ODI 1975” General correspondence and copy

correspondence. Handwritten notes on India. Minutes of

meetings

9/4/6 22.10.73-

3.5.1975

Folder “ODI” General correspondence and minutes of

meetings

Part Five OEEC

Box 118

9/5/1 5.1.60-

30.7.63

Folder “OEEC Energy Advisory Commission” Official

correspondence relating to the OEEC and the OECD

9/5/2 11.10.1954-

6.3.1959

Folder “OEEC Italian 10-year plan – 1960” Official

correspondence

9/5/3 9.11.1956-

6.1.1960

Folder “OEEC Energy Advisory Commission”

Official correspondence

Part 6 RES

Box 119

9/6/1 1930-1981 Folder “RES Keynes”. Various papers concerning business

of the RES

9/6/2 15.1.1971-

27.9.1992

Folder. A few papers concerning RES. Includes “RES

Report on the finance of economic research” and table

plan and menus for RES dinner in EAGR‟s honour in 1971

9/6/3 12.1965-

2.1988

Loose papers. Collection of account sheets for Keynes

editions from Macmillan and typescript of “Collected

writings of JMK”

Box 120

9/6/4 14.2.1941-

24.2.1978

Folder “Collected writings of JMK. Duplicate contracts”

9/6/5 31.7.1975-

25.3.1988

Folder “Oddments (EAGR). Today‟s post.” Various

documents concerning Keynes edition. Typed introduction

by Milo Keynes

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9/6/6 1976-1992 Folder. Various papers relating to the RES. Various

handwritten notes probably by EAGR

9/6/7 1986-1992 Folder. Various copy correspondence. Also “35 years on

the RES Council” by EAGR and “The economics of the

next century” probably by EAGR

Box 121

9/6/8 23.2.1970-

12.9.1980

Folder “RES edition of Vol VII General Theory. Franklin

library”. General papers and correspondence of the RES

9/6/9 11.8.1970-

13.4.1981

Folder. General papers and correspondence of the RES.

“Royal Economic Society Keynes edition. Note of

discussion between Austin Robinson and Lord Kahn,

Tuesday May 24, 1977” handwritten by EAGR

9/6/10 31.12.1971-

22.1.1975

Folder “Keynes and RES”. Various correspondence and

papers relating to Keynes and RES. “Some comments on

the recommendations of the accountants on the form and

content of the accounts of the RES. Note by Austin

Robinson” handwritten draft

9/6/11 22.5.1987-

13.10.1992

Folder “RES/Keynes general correspondence 1990-“

Mostly copy correspondence

Box 122

9/6/12 1970-1980 Folder “EAGR Royal Economic Society”. Mostly

correspondence from 1971. Business of the RES

9/6/13 22.1.1974-

20.12.1974

Folder “RES 1974” Various letters concerning business of

the RES. Many concerning Keynes and publications. “A

personal view” by EAGR (Keynes) and “Special

Committee of the Council. The publication policies of the

society “ by EAGR

9/6/14 1975-1976 Folder “Royal Economic Society 1975-1976”. Various

letters concerning RES and Keynes editions

Part 7 Miscellaneous

Box 123

9/7/1 16.7.1969-

5.3.1976

Folder “ASEAN” Correspondence and details of meetings

of the ASEAN

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9/7/2 1974-1975 Folder “United Nations 1974-1975” Small amount of

correspondence, job adverts

9/7/3 16.5.55-

4.7.66

Folder “UK Social Sciences Advisory Committee/

UNESCO” Various letters and papers concerning the UK

National Commission for UNESCO

9/7/4 1953-1955 Folder “UNESCO co-operating body” Correspondence and

details of meetings

9/7/5 14.1.1973-

10.10.1977

Folder “UNIDO 1974-1975” Correspondence and

handwritten draft of “The evaluation of multi-national

projects and the basis of a policy for their establishment in

developing countries by Austin Robinson Nov,1973”

9/7/6 6.5.1975-

28.11.1980

Folder “UNDP” general correspondence

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Section Ten Papers from conferences

Box 124

10/1/1 29.4.1949-

4.10.1949

Folder “Chatham House Bigwin Inn Conference”.

Correspondence and papers re Fourth Commonwealth

Relations Conference, held at Bigwin Inn Canada, Sept

1949. EAGR was a member of the UK group.

Correspondence and minutes of planning meetings of UK

group, verbatim report EAGR talk to Royal Institute of

International Affairs at Chatham House on „The Economic

Relations of the UK and the Commonwealth‟, 3 versions

text EAGR paper „The UK‟s Economic Problems‟ for

Conference. UK group paper on „Imperial Preference‟, list

of delegates, copies articles on Conference from Ottawa

Journal, Press release from UN on „Summary of Main

Features of the Economic Survey of Europe in 1948‟.

Passenger list and postcard of liner Queen Mary, on which

EAGR returned after Conference. Request to EAGR to

speak at Control Commission for Germany Summer

School

10/1/2 27.7.1955

and undated

Loose papers re International Conference on „The Peaceful

Uses of Atomic Energy‟, held at Geneva, August 1955.

EAGR attended as adviser representing Cambridge

University to UK delegation. Ms and typescript versions

EAGR introduction to paper „The World‟s Needs for a

New Source of Energy‟ by EAGR and G H Daniel of

Ministry of Fuel and Power. Text of their paper, letter

confirming EAGR‟s place at conference, list of delegates

10/1/3 17.2.1956-

11.1956

Folder “I.C.I.”. Papers re conference sponsored by

Imperial Chemical Industries on „Agriculture in the British

Economy‟, held at Brighton, November 1956. Two

versions of text of EAGR paper „Agriculture‟s Place in the

National Economy‟, plus galley proofs. Texts of opening

address, paper on sources of food by E F Nash and

discussion papers by Ronald C Tress and John R Raeburn.

EAGR and printed HMSO statistical material used to

produce „Factors Affecting the Longer-Term Demand for

Agricultural Products‟ for the Conference. Conference

programme and guest list for conference dinner

10/1/4 6.1960-

24.11.1960

Printed envelope file “The Next Five Years”. Papers re

Federation of British Industries conference held at

Brighton, November 1960. Letter of invitation to EAGR

with outline of conference, discussion paper on „Trade and

Payments‟. Copy London and Cambridge Economic

Bulletin for June 1960, press release on National Institute

Economic Review for July 1960

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10/1/5 19.1.1961-

4.1961 and

undated

Unlabelled folder of papers re „Conference on Agricultural

Policy‟ organised by Agricultural Economics Research

Institute and Institute of Agrarian Affairs of the University

of Oxford and held in Oxford, April 1961. EAGR

discussion paper on „Desirable Volume of Home

Production, Ms notes from speech introducing it, texts of

papers by Derek Healy and Colin Clark and G T Jones. Ms

and typescript statistics, HMSO published material

including Economic Survey for 1961, correspondence with

J B Hutchinson re discussions on agricultural policy

Box 125

10/1/6 15.11.1956-

17.11.1956

Folder of printed proceedings of conference „Agriculture

in the British Economy‟ organised by ICI Ltd including

EAGR‟s „Agriculture‟s Place in the National Economy‟

and typescript summary version. Also Ms notes on

proceedings by EAGR

10/1/7 2.5.1953-

7.3.1955

Folder “International Rayon Congress, Paris June 1954”

Includes “The economic significance of man-made fibres

in world textiles” by EAGR

10/1/8 7.11.1972-

16.2.1973

Folder „Conference on Limits of Growth‟. Correspondence

re RES conference planned for September 1974, EAGR

was convenor of organising committee and a member of

the RES conference planning committee. Includes brief

outlines of other planned conferences

10/1/9 2.7.1975-

10.11.1975

Folder „Keynes Canadian Conference‟. Correspondence re

EAGR participation in 1975 conference sponsored by

University of Western Ontario and the Hebrew University

of Jerusalem on “Keynes, Cambridge and the General

Theory” and re publication of proceedings. EAGR

conference paper „Keynes and his Cambridge Colleagues‟

and annotated photocopy

10/1/10 Various Folder “Conferences committee” Various conference

papers

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Section Eleven Miscellaneous

Part 1 General

Box 126

11/1/1 4.8.1876-

16.2.1877

Notebook of notes taken by Henry C Robson at Professor

[James Edwin] Thorold Rogers‟ lectures at Wren‟s

teaching establishment in London. Mainly on English

Constitutional history from Edward I to the seventeenth

century, but also on history of representation and the

Crusades. No indication as to how it came to be in the

possession of EAGR

11/1/2 Undated 6pp typescript „The Bee Orchid‟ with initials MVM at top.

Description of a childhood walk on the Downs and

discovery by „Beryl‟ of a Bee Orchid. Possibly by Marjorie

Violet Matthews [later Sisson], a friend of JVR or by a

member of the Maurice Family

11/1/3 c1922-1925 Typescript with Ms title „Beauty and the Beast‟, written by

JVR in collaboration with Dorothea Cotter Morison.

Corrections and annotations by JVR. An allegorical tale of

a merchant of Urbania. (Appears to be slightly different

from copies in JVR papers at King‟s College)

11/1/4 1919-1947

and undated

Copy typescript „The First Book of Munitions Called

Genesis…” a spoof version of the Creation re the Ministry

of Munitions, possibly by EAGR. Papers and

correspondence re EAGR‟s appointment as Deputy

Chairman of the Readymade and Wholesale Bespoke

Tailoring Trade Board 1938. Copy the „Economic Survey

for 1947‟ with EAGR annotations. [All put in one folder

by Frances Wilmoth]

11/1/5 Undated

c1980

EAGR notes on wheat yields and consumption in Roman

Britain

11/1/6 c1988 18 pp. typescript Cambridge reminiscences of Margaret

Gardiner (Newnham 1923-6), possibly a draft for A Scatter

of Memories (1988) sent to EAGR for comment

11/1/7/1 Undated 1 p notes on painting entitled „Eggelin III in Prison‟, said

to be copied from the catalogue of an exhibition at

Dusseldorf in 1850

11/1/7/2 Undated 1 p mark or vote sheet for a transferable vote of 14 counts

for 17 individuals, surnames only given including

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Robinson, who had highest number of votes. Probably

from a Cambridge University or College election of some

kind

11/1/7/3 Undated

c1942-5

1 p EAGR notes on Harriet Martineau on back of Ministry

of Production paper, with 1 p re length of volume of

Economic Journal

11/1/7/4 Undated 1 p typescript text of the Hippocratic Oath, folded over

dried maple leaf

11/1/7/5 Undated 3 pp incomplete Ms by EAGR possibly of short story re

man called Wheeler flying to France on midnight Air Mail

flight

11/1/7/6 Undated 1 p EAGR list of Classical Scholars and Exhibitioners at

Oxford and Cambridge who were from Marlborough

College 1913-1915 [removed from copy of „The

Marlburian‟ for 1913-1915 in bookcase in Archives

Room]

11/1/7/7 1984 Folder “FIPESO” Account of teacher‟s seminar in

Zimbabwe written by Joyce Baird as President of

Federation Internationale des Professeurs de

L‟Enseignements Secondaire (FIPESCO)

11/1/7/8 Undated

c1990

Letter from Luke Morris to EAGR re his Theological

studies in Oxford, on reverse of Christmas card made from

a folded sheet of paper

11/1/7/9 Undated

c1990

Note from Tom Wyatt (identity uncertain), Fellow of

Sidney Sussex College to EAGR re current value of Manor

of Itterby, Cleethorpes, purchased by the College in 1616.

Annotated by EAGR

11/1/7/10 Undated Short notes by EAGR on economics

11/1/7/11 1991 Invitation to wedding of John Christopher Bailey (EAGR‟s

grandson) with Heidi Noelle Yantzi on 1 July 1991

11/1/7/12 5.1992 Election leaflet for Joyce Baird as Liberal Democrat

candidate for Newnham Ward, Cambridge, in City Council

Elections

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11/1/7/13 Undated Small slip of paper labelled “A” bearing text „The

principle of providing financial compensation to private

industry for losses resulting from freer trade might be a

dangerous one for governments to accept, but international

financing of modernization or alternative investment might

be useful‟. [May be from paper on modernization. Nb

idiosyncratic spelling]

11/1/7/14 Undated

c1945

Counter Petition to Privy Council of 14 „University

Teachers, Statisticians and Economists‟ including EAGR

to Royal Statistical Society Petition for a Supplemental

Charter

11/1/7/15 Undated

c1944-1945

3 pp on GR embossed paper of EAGR statistics of

munitions spending at end of First World War and

projected expenditure dependent on end of „Japanese

War‟. [May originally have been with Keynes letter above]

11/1/7/16 7.3.1930-

12.1990

Menu cards and invitations etc. Signed menu from

Marshall Society Committee Dinner 1930, menu from

Malthus Celebration 1935, menu for dinner for H S

Bennett of Cambridge University Press, table plan and

programme for entertainment at dinner for centenary of

birth of John Maynard Keynes 1983, letter of invitation

and menu lunch for completion of Collected Writings of

JMK, invitation to 1990 Keynes Lecture at British

Academy

11/1/8 9.1954 Printed Latin Orations (with translations) delivered at

Oxford University Convocation to confer Honorary

Degrees on members of the British Association, Ben

Lockspeiser, John Lennard-Jones and Harold Spencer

Jones

11/1/9 Undated 5 pp typescript outline chronology of French history from

58 BC to 1870, in folder labelled “EAGR Personal 1954”

11/1/10 10.8.1961-

27.5.1984

Folder „Dusky Princess(es?)‟. Correspondence EAGR with

Commander Alexander Desta of Ethiopian Imperial Navy

about education of his sister Rachel at Homerton College

Cambridge. She was granddaughter of the Emperor of

Abyssinia. 2 letters David McKenna to EAGR about

possible involvement of his father Reginald McKenna in

secret new process to refine gold

11/1/11 c1958 Folder “Saxon Chronicles” small amount of

correspondence

11/1/12 Undated Folder of plans of EAGR‟s flat in Sussex Street

Cambridge

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Box 127

11/1/13 27.1.1959-

27.1.1981

Folder „Flying Boats, spins etc‟. Correspondence re early

history of flying boats and EAGR‟s involvement with

them during World War I. Correspondents include JM

Bruce at Royal Air Force Museum Hendon, Arnold

Massey, Bruce Robertson, Edward Chilton, Roy Harrod re

first spin of a plane and D V Carnegie. EAGR typescript

„Notes on Certain British Aeroplanes 1914-18‟. [Some

duplication with file in 1st cabinet]

11/1/14 21.12.1973-

30.9.1992

Folder „Flying Boats 1981‟. Correspondence and

photographs re early history of flying boats and EAGR‟s

involvement with them during World War I.

Correspondents include JM Bruce at Royal Air Force

Museum Hendon, Arnold Massey and A Furse

11/1/15 10.11.1937 Copy of “The Stateman Gwalior Birthday Supplement”

Part 2 Sensitive material

Box 128

11/2/1 Undated

c1960-1990

Large address book, 2 telephone indexes and various lists

of names and addresses

11/2/2 Undated EAGR typescript reference for Joyce Baird, applying for

post of Secretary of the Cambridge University Women‟s

Appointment Board.

11/2/3 28.12.1973-

11.7.1975

Folder “Zareen Huda”. Various letters concerning Zareen

Huda, a female student from Dacca, daughter of the Head

of the Economics Faculty there. Letters concern EAGR‟s

efforts to secure her a place as an undergraduate at

Cambridge or Oxford.

11/2/4 15.10.1962-

24.9.1963

Folder „Research Students 1963‟. Correspondence re Brian

Robin Stewardson and M J Graves

11/2/5 18.1.1965-

22.1.1965

Letters from Cambridge University Registrary to EAGR as

elector to Professorship in Economic History enclosing 8

applications, plus letters of support.

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Section Twelve Photographs (Large Brown boxes)

Part 1 Personal photographs

Box 129

12/1/1 Undated 1 small photograph album stamped “Kodak”. 13 very

early B+W photographs many of classic cars

12/1/2 Undated 1 large photograph album “Snapshots”. Many small

B+W photographs of Indian locations. Some pages

annotated. EAGR‟s residence at Gwailor

12/1/3 Undated Collection of photographs of various unidentified

people, B+W and colour

12/1/4 Undated 3 small B+W photographs identified as “Lake District

Pigou‟s house?”

12/1/5 Undated Various B+W photographs mostly of Indian locations

12/1/6 Undated 26 B+W photographs identified as “Dehli Brotherhood

12/1/7 Undated 26 B+W photographs of the grandchildren at 62 Grange

Road

12/1/8 Undated 1 B+W photograph of the cockpit of a flying boat

12/1/9 Undated 6 annotated B+W photographs of a holiday at Mont

Blanc

12/1/10 Undated 21 small and large, B+W and colour photographs of

EAGR and others

12/1/11 Undated 1 large B+W photograph of the Taj Mahal

12/1/12 Undated 1 large B+W photograph of a foreign farmhouse

12/1/13 Undated 1 large B+W photograph probably at Gwalior. EAGR

included

12/1/14 19.11.1928 1 large B+W photograph in a metal frame with crest

“Gwalior”. Official photograph of 10 year old

Maharajah of Gwalior, 19.11.1928

12/1/15 1970 2 small colour photographs identified as “Singapore

1970”

12/1/16 1985 4 annotated (by EAGR) colour photographs of

locations in France

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Part 2 Career photographs

12/2/1 Undated 3 colour photographs identified as “IEA Kiel

conference”

12/2/2 Undated 2 colour photographs of Austin Robinson building

12/2/3 Undated 3 B+W photographs of the building of the Economics

faculty

12/2/4 Undated 5 B+W photographs identified as “IEA meeting”

12/2/5 Undated 9 B+W photographs identified as “IEA Addis Ababa”

12/2/6 Undated 4 B+W photographs including Nehru

12/2/7 Undated 5 colour photographs of Sidney Sussex college possibly

at May Day

12/2/8 Undated 3 large B+W photographs with typed inscription

relating to the dedication of the Rihand hydroelectric

project

12/2/9 Undated 1 large B+W photograph identified as “From 8/5/12

Peaceful coop”

12/2/10 Undated 12 large B+W photographs of unidentified people at

conference

12/2/11 Undated 12 small B+W photographs of Sidney Sussex college

12/2/12 Undated 14 large B+W photographs of unidentified Cambridge

meeting (James Meade?)

12/2/13 Undated 1 large B+W photograph probably of an Indian

conference

12/2/14 1953 2 B+W photographs marked “1953 conference on

“Economic Progress IEA”

12/2/15 12.1956 1 large B+W photograph of “Department of

Economics, Rajshahsi University on the occasion of the

seventh Pakistan Economic conference held at Rajshahi

in December 1956” EAGR included

12/2/16 1961 9 large B+W photographs and envelope identified as

“From IEA folder in Japanese conference 1960. Photos

of 1961 reception by Emperor Haile Selassie of

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Ethiopia

12/2/17 27.1.1965 3 large B+W photographs of Economics and Politics

building sent to EAGR by Casson Conder architects

12/2/18 27.7.1965 1 large B+W photograph with typed information on

“Energy survey of India Committee”

12/2/19 16.3.1980 3 colour photographs identified as “IEA Poona 16-24

March 1980 Employment Politics in Developing

Countries: A case study of India

Part 3 Negatives

12/3/1 Undated 2 large brown envelopes of negatives which have been

separated from photographs

Part 4 General Photographs many of EAGR and JVR

Box 130

12/4/1 1934-1938 Black album. B + W personal photographs dated 1934-

1938. Various pictures of Joan with Ann. A few

photographs of EAGR

12/4/2 Undated Brown spider web design album. B + W personal

photographs

12/4/3 Undated Brown envelope with 2 B + W black photographs of

EAGR at unknown conference

12/4/4 1932? Beige coloured album. Various B + W photographs of

Northern and Southern Rhodesia. People and locations.

EAGR appears in a few photographs. Probably

photographs of African survey visit in 1932

12/4/5 Various Folder. Various photographs of EAGR covering a wide

time scale. Very few dated. Mostly B + W but a few

colour. A few portrait photographs, some conference

photographs. Large B + W photograph of the 6th

form

at Marlborough School in 1916, EAGR in picture. 3

colour photographs of EAGR and family at the palace.

Probably receiving knighthood in 1975.

12/4/6 Undated Folder of negatives

12/4/7 Various Folder. A few B + W photographs of EAGR. 3 portrait

photographs, one-dated 1926. Prints of sketches of

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EAGR

12/4/8 Undated Folder of various portrait photographs of Joan

12/4/9 Undated Folder of negatives

12/4/10 Undated Folder. Various B + W photographs of EAGR, friends,

family and conference photographs

Part 5 Mostly of Killingholme and Flying boats

Box 131

12/5/1 Undated Album, B + W photographs of flying boats. EAGR? In

uniform and scenes of British military

12/5/2 1918? Album B + W photographs of Killingholme, Northern

ports and Medway towns, some dated 1918

12/5/3 Undated Album B + W aerial photographs of Killingholme,

ships etc

12/5/4 1917? Album “EAG Robinson, Chingford 18.V.17” B + W

photographs of aircraft and people

12/5/5 1918? Album B + W photographs of aircraft, people,

shipping, some annotated to be at Killingholme, some

dated 1918

12/5/6 Undated Album B + W photographs of Killingholme. Flying

boats, Short Bros factory and women working on

planes

12/5/7 1918? Album B + W photographs of flying boats, some dated

1918

12/5/8 Undated Pamphlet “United States Naval Air Station

Killingholme 1918”. History of base, photographs,

staff list etc

12/5/9 Undated Envelope containing various B + W photographs of

flying boats and people, probably Killingholme. Also

some negatives to match prints. Some negatives

annotated

12/5/10 Undated 7 album pages with B + W photographs including some

of Killingholme and flying boats annotated by EAGR

12/5/11 Undated 3 B + W photographs on marked paper. One aerial

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view of Killingholme, 2 of Immingham Dock

12/5/12 Undated Series of B + W and colour photographs documenting

EAGR‟s flights on Concorde

12/5/13 1918 3 B + W photographs of flying boat, annotated on back

by EAGR “Photographs taken by Carnegie (?) 17 Aug

1918..”

12/5/14 Undated Various photographs and negatives of flying boats

12/5/15 1935 Postcard of Horsen Farm, Exmoor

12/5/16 1956 Photograph of EAGR, inscribed on back “As a token of

memory to Prof. E.A.G. Robinson from Sultan Ahmad,

Rajshahi College, 31.12.56”

12/5/17 Undated Photograph found with Delhi Brotherhood Papers,

EAGR‟s brother Christopher or father with a teenage

girl

12/5/18 Undated Photograph of girl (Ann or Barbara?)

Part 6 Mostly EAGR

Photograph Box 132

12/6/1 Undated Large sketch of EAGR

12/6/2 1969 Large official B + W photograph of IEA conference in

Ceylon in 1969. EAGR

12/6/3 Undated 2 unidentified large B + W. India

12/6/4 1980 Large B + W photograph of Master and Fellows of

Sidney Sussex College 1980. EAGR

12/6/5 Undated 2 large B + W portrait photographs of children

12/6/6 Undated Large B + W portrait photograph in frame

12/6/7 Undated Large B + W photograph of large group of men in

uniform. Possibly Marlborough School.

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Section Thirteen Boxes of papers found in stationary cupboard

Part 1 General Business

Box 133

13/1/1 11.3.1938-

5.12.1950

Folder “Printing 1938-Dec 1950” Economic Journal

correspondence

13/1/2 20.2.1951-

19.12.1955

Folder “Printing 1951-55” General Economic Journal

correspondence

13/1/3 c1962 Folder “Printing” Concerning Economic Journal

13/1/4 4.1.1968-

16.12.1968

Folder “Printing (general) 1968” Correspondence

regarding printing of Economic Journal

Box 134

13/1/5 c1964 Folder “E.J. Stock lists 1964”

13/1/6 Various Folder. Various stock lists

13/1/7 8.2.1943-

20.10.1955

Folder “E.J. Copyright” Correspondence

13/1/8 15.6.1951-

18.3.1964

Folder “E.J. Copyright in the US-Field Roscoe & Co

1951-64” regarding Economic Journal

13/1/9 31.12.1955-

20.12.1960

Folder “Copyright 1956-60” regarding Economic

Journal

Box 135

13/1/10 5.1.1961-

16.12.1963

Folder “E.J. Copyright 1961-63” Correspondence

regarding Economic Journal

13/1/11 10.11.1963-

23.12.1965

Folder “E.J. Copyright 1964-65”. General Economic

Journal correspondence

13/1/12 31.12.1948-

12.8.1963

Folder “Back No‟s” Correspondence regarding

Economic Journal

Box 136

13/1/13 12.3.1963-

2.5.1966

Folder “Back numbers correspondence before Sept ‟66

When Dawson‟s handling of back issues was

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announced in E.J.” regarding Economic Journal

13/1/14 20.5.1965-

18.11.1969

Folder “Dawson reprinting” Correspondence regarding

Economic Journal

13/1/15 27.9.1966-

6.3.1969

Folder “ Back runs of E.J. No further action :

correspondence re : back runs matched up with requests

or no longer offered”

13/1/16 17.2.1967-

31.12.1968

Folder “Binding of back numbers of E.J. 1967-68”

13/1/17 15.2.1949-

3.10.1950

Folder “Secretarial Jan 1949- Dec 1950”

Correspondence regarding Royal Economic Society

13/1/18 6.5.1956-

7.3.1967

Folder “University Microfilms Ltd” General

correspondence concerning the Royal Economic

Society

Box 137

13/1/19 12.1.1959-

24.12.1960

Folder “Page proofs Dec” Correspondence regarding

Economic Journal

13/1/20 16.6.1960-

4.2.1966

Folder “Abstracts” Correspondence and papers relating

to the Economic Journal

13/1/21 1.1965-

12.5.1965

Folder “Offprints of Survey Articles correspondence”

13/1/22 13.1.1967-

12.12.1969

Folder “Reviews 1968-69” concerning Economic

Journal

Part 2 Correspondence regarding the Economic Journal

Box 138

13/2/1 Various Folder “E.J. Miscellaneous 1964-6” regarding

Economic Journal

13/2/2 22.4.1938-

25.11.1959

Folder “Readers Queries 1938-1959”. Economic

Journal correspondence

Box 139

13/2/3 29.11.1944-

16.12.1959

Folder “E.J. Articles” regarding Economic Journal

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13/2/4 25.7.1945-

20.7.1961

Folder. Correspondence regarding Economic Journal

Box 140

13/2/5 21.6.1957-

4.12.1960

Folder “Rockefeller Survey papers 1957-66”

Correspondence regarding “Surveys of Economic

Theory”

13/2/6 24.7.1959-

30.9.1963

Folder “Articles 1960-63” regarding Economic Journal

13/2/7 12.7.1960-

2.10.1963

Folder “Rockefeller Survey Articles file 1961-63”

Correspondence

13/2/8 4.12.1963-

18.12.1964

Folder “Rockefeller Survey Articles file for 1964”

Correspondence and handwritten and typed drafts of

“Surveys of Economic Theory” title page

Box 141

13/2/9 29.7.1964-

22.11.1967

Folder “E.J. ARTICLES – correspondence 1964

through 1967”

13/2/10 7.10.1964-

27.11.1969

Folder “Economic History” Correspondence regarding

Economic History supplement to Economic Journal

13/2/11

14.1.1965-

8.12.1965

Folder “Correspondence with AEA. Rockefeller

Foundation et al”

13/2/12 3.5.1965-

2.5.1968

Folder “Extracts from correspondence with Wm

Dawson & Sons Ltd. Professor EAG Robinson”

Correspondence regarding Economic Journal

13/2/13 24.5.1965-

18.3.1965???

Folder. Correspondence regarding “Survey of

Economic Theory”

13/2/14 6.11.1966-

14.12.1966

Folder. Correspondence regarding Survey of Economic

Theory and Rockefeller Foundation

Box 142

13/2/15 6.4.1967-

30.12.1968

Folder “E.J. Miscellaneous”. General Economic

Journal correspondence

13/2/16 28.2.1968-

19.11.1970

Folder “Articles general 1968-70” correspondence

regarding Economic Journal

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13/2/17 28.4.1961-

20.1.1964

Folder “Correspondence with CFC 1962-63”

Correspondence with C F Carter regarding Economic

Journal

Box 143

13/2/18 1.5.1963-

10.11.1970

Folder “CFC letters to and from EAGR” regarding

Economic Journal. Includes “Notes on the tasks of

editing the Economic Journal” by EAGR 1970

13/2/19 28.1.1964-

13.12.1966

Folder “CFC letters to and from : 1964-66”

Correspondence to and from Charles F Carter relating

to the Economic Journal

13/2/20 10.2.1968-

10.12.1970

Folder “CFC correspondence 1968-1970”

Correspondence with C F Carter regarding Economic

Journal

Box 144

13/2/21 29.8.1946-

19.12.1951

Folder Harrod 1946-51” correspondence between

EAGR and Roy Harrod concerning Economic Journal

13/2/22 9.11.1951-

12.12.1953

Folder “Harrod 1952, 1953” correspondence between

EAGR and Roy Harrod concerning Economic Journal

Box 145

13/2/23 12.1.1953-

17.12.1956

Folder “Harrod 1954-6” correspondence between

EAGR and Roy Harrod concerning Economic Journal

13/2/24 12.3.1956-

23.3.1960

Folder “Harrod 1956-1959”. Correspondence with

EAGR‟s joint editor of the Economic Journal

Box 146

13/2/25 15.10.1959-

29.1.1964

Folder “Harrod 1960-1” correspondence regarding

Economic Journal

13/2/26 18.8.1967-

15.10.1969

Folder “RCO Matthews 1968-1969 : letters to and

from” Small amount of correspondence

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Part 3 Personal Correspondence

Box 147

13/3/1 21.9.1938-

15.8.1950

Folder “EAGR Personal 1938-Dec 1950” Personal

correspondence

13/3/2 12.3.1948-

20.2.1963

Folder “1959” General personal correspondence

13/3/3 4.1.1951-

18.12.1953

Folder “EAGR Personal 1953” Large folder of general

correspondence

Box 148

13/3/4 5.8.1952-

23.12.1955

Folder “EAGR Personal 1955” Correspondence and

typewritten and handwritten “British agriculture : an

economist‟s view” by EAGR

13/3/5 5.1.1954-

11.12.1954

Folder “EAGR Personal 1954” Small amount of

personal correspondence

13/3/6 7.1.1960-

6.12.1960

Folder “1960” Personal correspondence. Includes

handwritten and typed “Obituary of Sir Dennis

Robertson”

Box 149

13/3/7 16.6.1960-

14.12.1964

Folder “1963-64” Personal correspondence

13/3/8 5.1.1961-

13.12.1961

Folder “1961” Personal correspondence

13/3/9 2.1.1962-

28.12.1962

Folder “1962” Personal correspondence

13/3/10 3.11.1955-

5.12.1956

Folder “EAGR Personal 1956” Correspondence

Part 4 Account books (Large brown box)

Box 150

13/4/1 Various 5 account books of subscription payments for

Economic Journal