Steuart-Denham, Sir James. Bt, 1712-1780
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Two manuscript memoirs of Steuart, the manuscripts of works, notes on money, credit and coinage, extracts from commonplace books and a small group of letters. Coltness papers. (Microfilm at Edinburgh UL)
A criticism of Hume's Tudor History, c 1760. Not in Steuart's hand. National Library of Scotland (NLS), MS. 9376.
Corrected and revised copies of the Inquiry and other works. British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Another copy of the manuscript of the Inquiry. Badische Landsbibliothek, Karlsruhe.
Correspondents
DAVID ERSKINE, 11th Earl of Buchan, two letters, 1780. Edinburgh UL
DAVID ERSKINE, 11th Earl of Buchan, two letters, 1780-1783. NLS, MS. 2956.
SIR PHILIP FRANCIS, two letters, 1776-1777. India Office Library, Home Misc. 62.
DAVID HUME, one letter, 1767. Hume MSS., Royal Society of Edinburgh.
WILLIAM PITT the Younger, four letters, n.d. Chatham papers, Public Record Office (PRO)
JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART, Chevalier de St George, 28 items, 1740-1756. Stuart papers, Windsor.
SAMUEL WILKS, 15 letters, 1772. India Office Library, Home Misc. 62.
Printed Material
PAUL CHAMLEY, Documents Relatifs à Sir James Steuart ( Strasbourg, 1965).
SAMAR R. SEN, The Economics of Sir James Steuart ( London, 1957).
SIR JAMES STEUART, An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Econ omy , ed. Andrew S. Skinner ( Edinburgh, 1966).
New Palgrave; ODNB; ESS XIV 389; IESS xv 265.
Portrait: see Inquiry (above).