CAIRNES, JOHN ELLIOT 1823-1875
Personal papers, consisting of letters received, copies of letters sent, manuscripts of lectures and notes on economic topics, 1837-1875.
NLI, MSS. 8940-8986.
Letters from John Stuart Mill to Cairnes, 1858-1873, and notes made by Cairnes in 1864 on Mill's Principles of Political Economy. Mill-Taylor collection, BLPES
Letterbook, 1865-67, National University of Ireland, Galway
Some correspondence concerning his position as Professor of Political Economy at UCL
Correspondents
EDWIN CHADWICK, four letters, 1870-1871. Chadwick papers, UCL
LEONARD HENRY COURTNEY, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith, 53 letters, 1862-1869. Courtney collection, BLPES
GEORGE HOWELL, two letters, 1866-1870. Howell papers, Bishopsgate Institute, London.
WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS, six letters, 1863-1875. Jevons papers, Manchester JRUL
ROBERT MCDONNELL, several letters, NLI
HARRIET MARTINEAU, three letters, 1862. Martineau papers, Birmingham UL
JOHN STUART MILL, letter or letters, n. d. Mill papers, Yale UL
GEORGE CROOM ROBERTSON, six letters, 1867-1877. Robertson papers, UCL
SARAH BLAKE SHAW, 15 letters, 1862-1868. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
HELEN TAYLOR, three letters, 1873-1875. Mill-Taylor collection, BLPES
Printed Material-
ADELAIDE WEINBERG, John Elliot Cairnes and the American Civil War ( London, 1970).
THOMAS A. BOYLAN and TIMOTHY P. FOLEY, ‘Notes on Ireland for John Stuart Mill: the Cairnes-Longfield Manuscript, Hermathena, CXXXVII, 1985
Collected Works of John Stuart Mill , ed. J. M. Robson, Vol. III
( Toronto, 1965) 1038-1095. Includes Cairnes's letters to Mill.
John Elliot Cairnes, Collected Works , 6 volumes, eds Tom Boylan and Tadhg Foley ( London, 2004)
New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase I 511; ESS III 140; IESS II 257.
Portrait: see Centenary History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, ed. R. D. Collison Black ( Dublin, 1947).
