Janus: The Papers of John Maynard Keynes

King's/PP/JMK contains:
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IF	Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance 1926
ET	Early Treasury Department documents
T	Treasury official 1915-19: war finance
PT	Treasury official 1915-19: planning post-war reconstruction
RT	Treasury official 1915-19: Paris Peace Conference
EC	'Economic consequences of the peace' (1919)
FI	International finance and German reparations 1919-23
RP	'Revision of the treaty' (1922)
IN	'Method of index numbers' 1909
TP	'Treatise on probability' (1921)
MR	'Tract on monetary reform' (1923)
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The Papers of John Maynard Keynes

Title	'Economic consequences of the peace' (1919)
Reference	JMK/EC
Covering Dates	1919–1925
Extent and Medium	4 boxes; paper

Content and context

This series consists of documents generated during the production of 'Economic consequences of the peace' by J.M. Keynes, including preparatory notes, correspondence, drafts and proofs.

King's/PP/JMK/EC contains:

Correspondence on the text. This file contains exchanges at draft and proof stages with (among others) G. Lowes Dickinson, F.A. Keynes, Arthur Salter, J.T. Sheppard and H.A. Siepmann. It also includes press cuttings reporting Sir Eric Geddes' speech in Cambridge, November 1918, famous for exhorting the Allies to 'squeeze Germany until the pips squeak'.
Creator: Various.
21 items in envelope; paper.

Sep. 1919-Nov. 1919

Correspondence after publication.
6 envelopes; paper.

Dec. 1919-Sep. 1924

Correspondence with Macmillan and Co. Ltd. Most of the correpondence in this file concerns publication and subsequent reprintings, but it also includes references to Keynes' 'Treatise on Probability' (1921) and 'Poems' (1920) by G.H. Luce.
55 items in envelope; paper.

July 1919-June 1921

Correspondence concerning a popular edition. This file contains exchanges with the Labour Research Department and other interested organisations and individuals concerning the publication of a cheap, popular edition.
44 items in envelope; paper.

Jan. 1920-Nov. 1920

Correspondence and related papers concerning foreign editions and translations.
18 envelopes; paper.

Oct. 1919-Oct. 1922

Correspondence concerning translations of 'The Peace of Versailles'. Correspondence concerning translations into French, German, Italian and Portuguese of an article by J.M. Keynes adapting Chapters 2, 4 and 5 of 'Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919).
28 items in envelope; paper.

Sep. 1920-Dec. 1922

Notebooks of mixed contents.
2 small booklets in envelope; paper.

May 1919-Nov. 1925

First draft. This file is an autograph manuscript draft, including autograph manuscript and typescript versions of the addendum to chapter 3 on Lloyd George, not included in the published version.
12 bundles in envelope; paper.

June 1919-Oct. 1919

Subsequent draft. This file contains an incomplete typescript draft, with autograph manuscript amendments. Includes notes of two dedications.
10 items in envelope; paper.

Sep. 1919-Oct. 1919

Galley proofs, extensively revised in manuscript by J.M. Keynes and others.
72 sheets and 2 fascicles; paper.

Sep. 1919-Nov. 1919

First, second and final page proofs. The first and second set are bundled together with an autograph manuscript draft (torn in half) of a longer preface than that finally published.
1 file, 19 gatherings and 1 sheet (torn in half); paper.

29 Oct. 1919–18 Nov. 1919

Published text amended for second edition.
224 sheets and 2 volumes; paper.

1920–1921

Related publications. Assorted press cuttings reporting the progress of the Armisitice negotiations, reviews of Keynes' book and critical reactions to it.
35 items in envelope; paper.

1919–1920