MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT 1766-1834
Journals of his tours on the continent, 1799-1826. Cambridge UL, Add. MSS. 7704-7709.
Manuscript of the Principles of Political Economy, mainly chapters on wealth and labour, value, rent, with a few corrected proof sheets; 264 pages, 1820. Also an annotated copy of the Principles .
Marshall Library, Cambridge.
Letters from David Ricardo, 1811-1823, are kept with the Ricardo papers.
Cambridge UL, Add. MS. 7510.
A large collection of valuable material assembled by Patricia James, Malthus’s biographer, is now available online at http://www.intellectualhistory.net/malthus/
Correspondents
THOMAS CHALMERS Seven letters, 1821-1833. Chalmers papers, New College, Edinburgh.
ALEXANDER JOHN GASPARD MARCET, three letters, 1807-1815. Seligman collection, Columbia UL, New York.
JOHN MURRAY, 36 letters, 1815-1834. Archives of John Murray Ltd. 17
MACVEY NAPIER, 11 letters, 1814-1830. BL Add. MSS. 34611-34614.
HENRY BROOKE PARNELL, 1st Baron Congleton, two letters, 1808. Congleton papers. 12
PIERRE PREVOST, six letters, 1815-1824. Prevost MSS., Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire de Genève.
DAVID RICARDO, 75 letters, 1811-1833. Ricardo papers, Cambridge UL, Add. MS. 7510.
WILLIAM WHEWELL, four letters, 1829-1833. Whewell papers, Trinity College, Cambridge.
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, 19 letters, 1823-1830.
Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
ARTHUR YOUNG, four letters, 1815-1819. BL Add. MSS. 35132-35133.
Printed Material
Travel Diaries of Thomas Robert Malthus , ed. Patricia James ( Cambridge, 1966).
PATRICIA JAMES, Population Malthus; His Life and Times ( London, 1979)
GEORGE F. MCCLEARY, The Malthusian Population Theory ( London, 1953).
Reprints Malthus’s published correspondence with Senior.
T. R. Malthus; The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, 2 volumes, eds. J. M. Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry,(Cambridge, 1997-2004)
New Palgrave ; ODNB XII 886; ESS X 68; ESS IX 549.
Portrait: NPG (A).
