SCOTT, WILLIAM ROBERT 1868-1940
268 items in GULSC; see online manuscript catalogue. The collection includes the MS of Adam Smith as Student and Professor and files relating to Scott’s research on Adam Smth for the book (MS Gen 1293/a-f.). There are typescripts of Scott’s articles, reviews, orations, and public lectures (MS Gen 1643/101-8, 247, 267, 268); and a comprehensive set of draft examination papers on political economy and other evidence of his adminstrative role at Glasgow (MS Gen, 1646/101-8;121-6)
Scott family papers, including estate accounts, a group of 59 letters to Scott, 1891-1935, and MSS. of historical work on Ireland. PRONI
Records of Scott's administrative work at the University of St Andrews. St Andrews University Archives.
Correspondents
SIR ALEXANDER KIRKLAND CAIRNCROSS, 5 letters. GULSC, MS Gen 1517/2
EDWIN CANNAN, 11 letters, 1905-1935. Cannan collection, BLPES
ARTHUR H. COLE (and Wallace B. Donham), 80 letters, 19291940 . Baker Library Archives, Harvard University.
CHARLES RYLE FAY, 9 letters to, 1938-9, on Adam Smith. GULSC, MS Gen 511/56-64
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 405 letters to, 1911-1936, in RDFC, also letters to Audrey Foxwell, 1939.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, 28 letters, 1915-1938. Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.
SIR D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON, four letters, 1907. Thompson papers, St Andrews UL
Printed Material
JOHN H. CLAPHAM, `William Robert Scott, 1868-1940', Proceedings of the British Academy , XXVII (1941).
New Palgrave
Portrait: see Clapham (above).
