PLACE, FRANCIS 1771-1854
Manuscripts and working papers of books.
BL Add. MSS. 27789-27859.
The manuscript of Place’s autobiography, with correspondence and other papers.
BL Add. MSS. 35142-35154.
Commonplace books, 1775-1844.
BL Add. MSS. 36623-36628.
Letters to Place, 1813-1852.
BL Add. MSS. 37949-37950.
Place’s collection of newspaper cuttings, in 180 volumes, contains some manuscript letters.
BL Dept. of Printed Books.
Five letters to and from Place, 1823-1838.
London UL, A.L.s 99, 100, 251, 252, 356.
Several letters from Place to different correspondents, 1840.
Ely collection, Louisiana State UL, Baton Rouge.
A six-page manuscript of ‘Remarks upon Mr Ricardo’s Observations’.
Seligman collection, Columbia UL, New York.
Correspondents
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 36 letters, 1831-1852.
Brougham papers, UCL
EDWIN CHADWICK, eight letters, 1829-1841.
Chadwick papers, UCL
RICHARD COBDEN, four letters, 1840-1849.
BL Add. MSS. 43667-43668.
JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1st Baron Broughton, c. 150 items, 1818-1831.
BL Add. MSS. 36457-36466.
GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, four letters, 1842-1850.
Holyoake collection, Co-operative Union Ltd, Manchester.
ROBERT OWEN, three letters, 1831-1838.
Owen correspondence, Co-operative Union Ltd, Manchester.
JOSEPH PARKES, five letters, 1851-1853.
Parkes papers, UCL
GEORGE JOHN SPENCER, 2nd Earl Spencer, three letters, 1822.
Spencer papers, NRA 10410.
SAMUEL WHITBREAD, two letters, 1813.
Whitbread papers, Bedfordshire RO
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, five items, 1830.
Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
Printed Material
Autobiography of Francis Place , ed. Mary Thale ( London, 1972).
London Radicalism, 1830-1843: A Selection from the Papers of Francis Place , ed. D. J. Rowe ( London, 1970).
GRAHAM WALLAS, Life of Francis Place ( London, 1898). New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase II 1552; ESS XII 143.
Portraits: NPG; see Autobiography (above).
