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Higgs, Henry 1864-1940

Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.

Born 1864 · died 1940

Henry Higgs was a British civil servant, economist, and historian of economic thought.

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Attempts to trace the Higgs papers have not met with any success.

Correspondents

SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, correspondence with various enclosures, 1906-1919.

BL Add. MSS. 41240-41242.

EDWIN CANNAN, 12 letters, 1896-1933. Cannan collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)

ARTHUR H. COLE, nine letters, 1929-1938. Baker Library Archives, Harvard University.

HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, copies of letters, 1890.

Collet papers. 8

HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 641 letters, 1883-1936, in RDFC; 12 letters, 1899, Foxwell papers, Baker Library, Harvard University.

SIR ROBERT GIFFEN, two letters, 1895.

Giffen collection, BLPES

GEORGE HOWELL, two letters, 1906.

Howell papers, Bishopsgate Institute, London.

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, 12 letters, 1930-1936.

Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.

JOHN NEVILLE KEYNES, two letters, 1908.

J. N. Keynes correspondence, Marshall Library, Cambridge.

MACMILLAN, many letters, 1896-1937.

BL Add. MS. 55198.

WILLIAM ROBERT SCOTT, two letters, 1935-1936.

Scott papers, Glasgow UL

WILLIAM ROBERT SCOTT, three letters, 1938.

Baker Library Archives, Harvard University.

EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, 28 letters, 1895-1910. Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.

Printed Material

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, ‘Henry Higgs’, in Essays in Biography, vol. x of Collected Writings ( London, 1972).

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Read the works online

Digitised full-text books and writings by Higgs, Henry 1864-1940 — free to read.

Cite this entry

Higgs, Henry 1864-1940. “Archival papers.” Economists’ Papers, https://www.economistspapers.org.uk/higgs-henry-1864-1940/ (accessed 19 Jul 2026).