Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro 1845-1926
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1845 · died 1926
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward, he was appointed the founding editor of The Economic Journal.
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Letters to Edgeworth, 1875-1916, mainly testimonials and congratulations. These include many from economists, but none which have significant material on economics. Offprints of reviews of works on economics, mainly from the Academy. Printed applications for university posts. A few newspaper cuttings to papers given by Edgeworth.
Edgeworth papers. 7
Correspondents
C. F. BICKERDIKE, c. 50 letters, 1902-1906. Bickerdike papers. 3
EDWIN CANNAN, 18 letters, 1906-1925. Cannan collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
SIR ROBERT ENSOR, two letters, 1899-1900. Ensor papers, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 335 letters to, 1880-1922, in RDFC; 3 letters, 1881-1888. Edgeworth papers; 4 letters, 1899. Foxwell papers, Baker Library, Harvard University.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Baron Keynes, 72 items, 1908-1925. Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.
JOHN NEVILLE KEYNES, nine letters, 1890-1900.
J.N. Keynes correspondence, Marshall Library, Cambridge.
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, 43 letters, 1891-1916. Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.
LEON WALRAS, ten letters, 1888-1890.
Fonds Walras, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, Lausanne.
KNUT WICKSELL, eight letters, 1894-1915.
Wicksell papers, Lund Universitetsbibliotek, Sweden.
Printed Material
ARTHUR LYON BOWLEY, F. Y. Edgeworth's Contribution to Mathematical Statistics ( London, 1928).
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, ‘Francis Ysidro Edgeworth’, in Essays in Biography, vol. x of Collected Writings ( London, 1972).
JAMES BONAR, ‘Memories of F. Y. Edgeworth’, Economic Journal, XXXVI (1926) 647-653.
F.Y, Edgeworth: Mathematical Psychics and Further Papers on Political Economy , ed. Peter Newman ( Oxford, 2003) .
New Palgrave; ODNB; ESS v 397; IESS iv 506.
Portraits: see Keynes and Bonar (above).