Bray, John Francis 1809-1897
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1809 · died 1897
John Francis Bray was a radical, chartist, writer on socialist economics, and activist in both Britain and his native America in the 19th century. He was hailed in later life as the "Benjamin Franklin" of American labor.
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One manuscript letter and several drafts of published and unpublished works, with photostats of letters, articles and other material.
Bray collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
MS. of God and Man a Unity, written 1877-1878, and correspondence of 1883 about its publication. ‘Log-books’ from 1842-189G.
Seligman collection, Columbia UL, New York.
Family letters, 1894 onwards, and manuscripts of unpublished works.
Labadie collection of Labor and Radical Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Family correspondence, 1802-1856, including several letters to Bray, 1824-1842, from his brothers and sisters, and some of his letters to his mother, aunt and uncle, 1822-1856.
Brotherton collection, Leeds UL
Printed Material
M. F. JOLLIFFE, ‘John Francis Bray’, International Review for Social History, iv (1939) 1-36.
JOHN FRANCIS BRAY, A Voyage from Utopia, ed. M. F. Lloyd-Prichard ( London, 1957).
New Palgrave ; ODNB; ESS II 686.
Portrait: see Voyage from Utopia (above).