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Clapham, Sir John Harold 1873-1946

Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.

Portrait of Clapham, Sir John Harold 1873-1946

Born 1873 · died 1946

Sir John Harold Clapham, CBE, FBA was a British economic historian.

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A volume of notes and essays, 1894, 12 papers read to the King's College Political Society, eight letters to various corre­spondents, 1915-1946. The manuscript of his fellowship disser­tation on the Abbe Sièyes. Two volumes of notes for lectures, one on France before the Revolution and the other on modern European economic history.

KC, Cambridge.

A typescript copy, with numerous manuscript annotations, of The Causes of the War of 1792, 1898. Also a few manuscript frag­ments of the Concise Economic History.

Clapham papers. 4

The manuscript of the unfinished third volume of the History of the Bank of England.

Bank of England Archives.

Correspondents

WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Baron Beveridge, several letters, 1926-1941.

Beveridge papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)

EDWIN CANNAN, 11 letters, 1911-1930. Cannan collection, BLPES

CHARLES RYLE FAY, five letters, 1908.

Miscellaneous letters, Marshall Library, Cambridge.

HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 40 letters to, 1896-1914, in RDFC

MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, 13 letters, n.d. Cambridge UL, Add. MS. 7481.

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, 35 letters, 1915-1946. Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.

JOHN SALTMARSH, 15 letters, 1930-1946. Papers of Mr John Saltmarsh. 5

FRANCIS WILLIAM TAUSSIG, two letters, n.d. Harvard University Archives, Widener Library.

Printed Material

SIR GEORGE N. CLARK, ‘Sir John Harold Clapham, 1873-1946’, Proceedings of the British Academy, XXXIII (1947).

New Palgrave; ODNB; IESS ii 502.

Portrait: see Clark (above).

 

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Clapham, Sir John Harold 1873-1946. “Archival papers.” Economists’ Papers, http://www.economistspapers.org.uk/clapham-sir-john-harold-1873-1946/ (accessed 20 Jul 2026).