Pennington, James 1777-1862
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
No Pennington papers are known to exist.
The so-called Pennington Papers of the University of Chicago Library are in fact three out-letters and one in-letter, 1845-1862, to Treasury officials on financial matters.
One letter of W. E. Gladstone to Pennington, 1854.
London UL, AL 54.
Correspondents
GEORGE ARBUTHNOT, letters and memoranda, 1827-1855.
Welby collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, a memorandum, n.d
BL Add. MS. 44580.
WILLIAM HUSKISSON, three letters, 1827.
BL Add. MS. 38749.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, 16 letters, 1827-1850.
BL Add. MSS. 40543-40610.
SIR CHARLES EDWARD TREVELYAN, a memo and letter, 1841.
Goulburn papers, Surrey RO
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, 13 letters, 1828-1831.
Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
CHARLES WOOD, 1st Viscount Halifax, one letter, 1843.
Grey of Howick papers, Durham DP
Printed Material
Economic Writings of James Pennington , ed. Richard S. Sayers ( London, 1963).
New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase II 1454.