Janus: The Papers of John Maynard Keynes

King's/PP/JMK contains:
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PS	Speeches and lectures given outside Cambridge University
BR	Broadcasts
M	Assorted memoranda
CAC	Collaborative writing
CO	Comments by J.M. Keynes on articles, memoranda, etc., received
L	Letters
EJ	'Economic Journal'
RES	Royal Economic Society
GS	'Manchester Guardian Commercial': Reconstruction Supplements
CEB	Cambridge Economic Handbooks
CE	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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The Papers of John Maynard Keynes

Title	Letters
Reference	JMK/L
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1906–1946
Extent and Medium	8 boxes; paper

Content and context

This section comprises correspondence and related papers on a miscellany of academic and business issues. Its contents should be used in conjunction with the documents listed under specific subject, publication and organisation headings elsewhere in this catalogue.

This series is arranged in two sequences: chronological and alphabetical. Chronological files appear before alphabetical ones. It does not contain the following numbers: L/1-6.

King's/PP/JMK/L contains:

1907. This file contains a clipping of an article by A.C. Pigou 'Broadening the basis of taxation'.
Creator: Pigou, A.C.
1 item in envelope; paper.

15 May 1907

1908. This file contains correspondence for February and December.
2 items in envelope; paper.

1908

1909. This file contains correspondence for February-May, September and November-December, including letters of congratulation on J.M. Keynes' election to a fellowship at King's College.
19 items in envelope; paper.

1909

1910. This file contains correspondence for January, June and October.
3 items in envelope; paper.

1910

1911. This file contains correspondence for January, June-July and October-December, including two letters to John Neville Keynes as University Registrar.
11 items in envelope; paper.

1911

1912. This file contains correspondence for January-April and June.
9 items in envelope; paper.

1912

1913. This file contains correspondence for January, May and October.
6 items in envelope; paper.

1913

1914. This file contains correspondence for January-March, May, July--December.
21 items in envelope; paper.

1914

1915. This file contains correspondence for January-October and December.
40 items in envelope; paper.

1915

1916. This file contains correspondence for February-September and November.
51 items in envelope; paper.

1916

1917. This file contains correspondence for May, August, October and December, as well as some undated correspondence.
8 items in envelope; paper.

1917

1918. This file contains correspondence for January-February, April, July, September and November.
12 items in envelope; paper.

1918

1919. This file contains correspondence for January, March, June-July, September-October and December.
37 items in envelope; paper.

1919

1920. This file contains correspondence for February-April and June-December.
61 items in envelope; paper.

1920

1921. This file contains correspondence for January-May, July-September and November-December.
42 items in envelope; paper.

1921

1922. This file contains correspondence for February-August and October-December. It also contains a typescript, 'Maynard Keynes: one of God's spies', by Frank Harris and a typescript, 'Speculations in statistical metaphysics', by M.C. Rorty.
Creator: Harris, Frank; Rorty, M.C.
18 items in envelope; paper.

1922

1923. This file contains correspondence for January-February, April, June-August, October and December.
14 items in envelope; paper.

1923

1924. This file contains correspondence for February, April and June-December 1924, as well as January 1925. It also contains an sutograph manuscript sketch, 'Prologomena to a new socialism', by J.M. Keynes, 8 June.
20 items in envelope; paper.

1924

1925. This file contains correspondence for January-August and October-December. It also includes a typescript, 'Wages and profits or socialism by sacrifice, by P. Thomsen.
Creator: Thomsen, P.
46 items in envelope; paper.

1925

1926. This file contains correspondence for January-December. It also contains a pamphlet, 'The intriguers of Abingdon Street: an outspoken narrative of the course of events leading to the present crisis in the Liberal Party', by Capt. A.H. Henderson-Livesey.
Creator: Livesey, A.H. Henderson-, Captain.
43 items in envelope; paper.

1926

1927. This file contains correspondence for January-December, including research for a radio broadcast on the success in business of university graduates.
86 items in envelope; paper.

1927

1928. This file contains correspondence for January-April and July-December.
33 items in envelope; paper.

1928

1929. This file contains correspondence for January-July, September and November-December. It also contains a pamphlet, 'Economic conditions in industry', by B.S. Rowntree, an address given to the Conference of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, 15-19 October. Paper, . Former reference .
Creator: Rowntree, B.S.
43 items in envelope; paper.

1929

1930. This file contains correspondence for January-March, May and July-December.
36 items in envelope; paper.

1930

1931. This file contains correspondence for January-May and July-December 1931, as well as January-February 1932 and March 1933.
49 items in envelope; paper.

1931–1933

1932. This file contains correspondence for January-August and October.
37 items in envelope; paper.

1932

1933. This file contains correspondence for January-July and September-December.
24 items in envelope; paper.

1933

1934. This file contains correspondence for January-December.
32 items in envelope; paper.

1934

1935. This file contains correspondence for January-October and December. It also contains the typescript of 'An introduction to a monetary theory of employment' by R.B. Bryce, a paper read at the London School of Economics and based on J.M. Keynes' Cambridge lectures.
Creator: Bryce, R.B.
44 items in envelope; paper.

1935

1936. This file contains correspondence for January-April, June and September-December.
13 items in envelope; paper.

1936

1937. This file contains correspondence for January-July and September-December.
29 items in envelope; paper.

1937

1938. This file contains correspondence for February and April-December.
13 items in envelope; paper.

1938

1939. This file contains correspondence for January-July and September-December 1939, as well as January 1940.
27 items in envelope; paper.

1939–1940

1940. This file contains correspondence for January and March-December.
28 items in envelope; paper.

1940

1941. This file contains correspondence for January-February, April-May, July-September and November-December.
18 items in envelope; paper.

1941

1942. This file contains correspondence for January-September and December. It also includes 1 autograph letter, signed, from D.H. Robertson to R.F. Kahn dated 10 August 1946.
Creator: Robertson, D.H.
16 items in envelope; paper.

1942–1946

1943. This file contains correspondence for January and March-December. It also includes a typescript of 'Functional finance and the federal debt' by A.P. Lerner.
Creator: Lerner, A.P.
16 items in envelope; paper.

1943

1944. This file contains correspondence for January and March-December 1944, as well as January 1945.
17 items in envelope; paper.

1944–1945

1945. This file contains correspondence for January-July and November-December 1945, as well as January 1946. It also contains, 'The economic and political consequences of Lord Keynes's theories' by Philip Courtney.
Creator: Courtney, P.
20 items in envelope; paper.

1945–1946

1946. This file contains correspondence for January-March.
17 items in envelope; paper.

1946

Correspondence with Australian economists. This file contains correspondence with the Australian economists D.B. Copland, 1941, 1946, L.F. Giblin, 1940-4, W.B. Robinson, 1941-2 and L.G. Melville, 1944.
Creator: Copland, D.B.; Giblin, L.F.; Melville, L.G.; Robinson, W.B.
18 items in envelope; paper.

1940–1946

Correspondence with Robert H. Brand.
Creator: Brand, Robert H.
77 items in 2 envelopes; paper.

1940–1946

Correspondence with Sir Wilfred Eady. Many of the letters in this file have been annotated by Treasury colleagues.
Creator: Eady, Sir Wilfred.
65 items in envelope; paper.

1943–1946

Correspondence with Richard F. Kahn. This file includes several letters exchanged with R.F. Kahn as well as the following enclosures: an article titled 'Kinetic theory of capital and interest' by Montgomery D. Anderson, 1933; 1 autograph letter, signed, from E.A.G. Robinson to J.M. Keynes, 4 October 1938; 1 autograph letter, signed, from J.T. Sheppard to J.M. Keynes, 8 August 1939; 1 carbon typed letter from R.F. Kahn to J.N. Rosa, 17 February 1942; correspondence between J.M. Keynes and D. Eccles, February-March 1943; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to F. Nixon, 7 April 1943; autograph manuscript comments by E.A.G. Robinson, J.E. Meade and J.M. Fleming on J.M. Keynes' minute to L. Robbins on labour controls, December 1945.
Creator: Kahn, Richard F. and others.
75 items in envelope; paper.

1928–1946

Correspondence with Alfred Marshall. This file includes several letters exchanged with Alfred Marshall as well as the following enclosures: 1 autograph letter, signed, from G.L. Dickinson to J.M. Keynes [1907x8]; 1 autograph letter, signed, from A. Marshall to Murray Macdonald, 23 April 1910; 1 autograph letter, signed. (incomplete) from A. Marshall to F.Y. Edgeworth, 1911; 1 autograph letter, signed, from F.Y. Edgeworth to A. Marshall, 27 July [1911]; 2 autograph letters, signed, from J.C. Sinha to J.M. Keynes, 1929; 1 copy letter from A. Marshall to J.C. Sinha, 14 May 1920.
Creator: Marshall, Alfred; Dickinson, G.L.; Edgeworth, F.Y.; Sinha, J.C.
33 items in envelope; paper.

1906–1929

Correspondence with Mary Paley Marshall. This file includes several letters exchanged with M.P. Marshall as well as the following enclosures: A. Marshall, 'The pure theory of foreign trade. The pure theory of domestic values' (1st published 1879, reprinted by London School of Economics, 1930); correspondence wth Claude Guillebaud and D. Macmillan concerning the Mexican edition of Alfred Marshall's selected writings, 1940; correspondence with Claude Guillebaud concerning J.M. Keynes' co-executorship of M.P. Marshall's will, 1944-5 and with Claude Guillebaud, G.M. Trevelyan and Pauline Guillebaud on her autobiography, 1944.
Creator: Marshall, M.P. and others.
33 items in envelope; paper.

1915–1940

Correspondence with Redvers Opie. This file includes several letters exchanged with Redvers Opie, many annotated by Treasury colleagues. It also contains the following enclosures: 2 typed letters, signed, from W.S. Wasserman to J.M. Keynes, November-December 1942; 1 typed letter, signed, from Gladwyn Jebb to J.M. Keynes, January 1943; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to Gladwyn Jebb, January 1943.
Creator: Opie, Redvers; Wasserman, W.S.; Jebb, Gladwyn.
24 items in envelope; paper.

1942–1945

Correspondence with Sir Frederick Phillips. This file includes several letters exchanged with Sir Frederick Philips, many annotated by Treasury colleagues. It also contains the following enclosures: typescript notes by D.H. Robertson, 10 November 1941 on F. Phillips's letter to J.M. Keynes, 18 October 1941; 1 carbon typed letter from F. Phillips to Horace Wilson, 26 February 1942; 1 typed letter, signed, from F. Phillips to Richard Hopkins, 8 July 1942; 1 carbon typed letter from F. Phillips to Richard Hopkins, 11 September 1942.
Creator: Phillips, Sir Frederick; Robertson, D.H.
26 items in envelope; paper.

1941–1943

Correspondence with Dennis H. Robertson. This file includes several letters exchanged with D.H. Robertson as well as the following enclosures: 1 autograph letter, signed from A.C. Pigou to J.M. Keynes, undated [c.1916]; 1 autograph letter, signed from Dennis Robertson to Tom Marshall, 2 October 1926; 1 carbon typed letter from Dennis Robertson to Archie Rose, 18 October 1926; 1 autograph letter, signed from Archie Rose to J.M. Keynes, 2 November 1926; 1 sheet of notes by Joan Robinson on the proofs of 'General Theory ... ' 1936. Many of these letters were annotated by D.H. Robertson in 1956.
Creator: Roberston, Dennis H.; Pigou, A.C.; Rose, Archie; Robinson, Joan.
35 items in envelope; paper.

1912–1938

Correspondence with Piero Sraffa. This file includes several letters exchanged with Piero Saffra as well as the following enclosures: 1 autograph letter, signed of introduction for Sraffa from Mary Berenson, 15 September 1921; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to J.C.C. Davidson, 29 January 1923; 1 autograph letter, signed from [C.] Gide to J.M. Keynes, 4 April 1930; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to [C.] Gide, 11 April 1930; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to Frank Ricardo, 11 April 1930; 1 typed letter, with manuscript amendments, for publication, soliciting letters of David Ricardo, [April 1930]; specimens of typeface for Royal Economic Society edition of Ricardo; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to J.V. Van Sickle, 22 February 1933; correspondence with W. Lewis of Cambridge University Press, December 1935-January 1936; copy of letters from C.K. Mill to F.A. Hayek, 2, 8, 12 July 1943; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to C.K. Mill, 6, 28 July 1943; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to G. O'Brien, 6, 28 July 1943; 1 carbon typed letter from G. O'Brien to J.M. Keynes, 12 July 1943; 1 typed letter, signed, from C.K. Mill to J.M. Keynes, 21 July 1943; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to J.W. Dulanty, 20 July 1943.
Creator: Sraffa, Piero; Lewis, W.; O'Brien, G.; Mill, C.K.
60 items in envelope; paper.

1921–1942

Correspondence with Henry Strakosch. This file includes several letters exchanged with Henry Strakosch as well as the following enclosures: 1 typed letter, signed, from H. Strakosch to C. Seligman, 3 July 1919; copy letter from E.M. Harvey to R. Southern Holland, 24 July 1919; copy letter from Central Mining and Investment Corporation Ltd. to E.M. Harvey, 25 July 1919; 1 autograph letter, signed from R. McKenna to J.M. Keynes, 10 August 1919; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to E.F.C. Lane 9, 10, 15, 19 October 1919; 1 typed letter, signed, from E.F.C. Lane to J.M. Keynes, 23 September 1919; copy of letter from T.K. Bewley to Lionel Phillips; 1 carbon typed letter from J.M. Keynes to J. Smuts, 27 October 1919, 9 February 1920; 1 typed letter, signed, from High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa to J.M. Keynes, 2 February 1920, passing on a cable from J. Smuts, 10 February 1920; 1 typed letter, signed, from Holmes, Son and Pott to J.M. Keynes, 14, 15 December 1923.
Creator: Strakosch, Henry and others.
57 items in envelope; paper.

1919–1923