TORRENS, ROBERT 1780-1864
Extensive efforts by scholars over the years have failed to trace Torrens 's papers. Direct descendants have been contacted without success.
Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY ARCHER, three letters, 1847-1864. Archer papers, National Library of Australia, MS. 71.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 14 letters, 1831-1860. Brougham papers, UCL
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Earl of Beaconsfield, 11 letters, 1847-1850. Disraeli papers, NRA 0842.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM, copies of several letters, n. d. Graham papers, NRA 2634.
JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1st Earl of Durham, five letters, 1831-1839. Lambton papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand .
SAMUEL JONES LOYD, Baron Overstone, 60 letters, 1847-1863. Overstone papers, London UL, MS. 804.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, nine items, 1841-1845. BL Add. MSS. 40486-40557.
SIR JOHN GEORGE SHAW-LEFEVRE, four letters, 1837 and n.d. Shaw-Lefevre papers, House of Lords RO
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, three items, 1839. Lambton papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington , New Zealand .
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, 20 letters, 1826-1831. Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
CHARLES WOOD 1st Viscount Halifax, ten letters, 1848-1860. Hickleton papers, NRA 8128.
Printed Material
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics ( London, 1958).
New Palgrave; ODNB; Boase III 991; ESS XVI 652; IESS XVI 105.
