Clapham, Sir John Harold 1873-1946
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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).