Hodgskin, Thomas 1787-1869
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1787 · died 1869
Thomas Hodgskin was an English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions.
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Four letters from Joseph Hume to Hodgskin, 1824-1846. National Library of Scotland (NLS), MS. 3112.
Three letters from Herbert Spencer to Hodgskin, 1849-1855.
Seymour collection, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
A letter from James Mill to Hodgskin, 1829.
Hollander collection, University of Illinois Library, Urbana.
Correspondents
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, six letters, 1826-1859.
Brougham papers, University College London (UCL)
RICHARD COBDEN, one letter (and several from Cobden to Hodgskin, 1853-1857), 1857.
Cobden papers, West Sussex RO
GEORGE HOWELL, one letter, 1867. Howell papers, Bishopsgate Institute, London.
FRANCIS PLACE , 24 letters and a note on population, 1818-1822. BL Add. MS. 35153.
SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, 11 letters, 1827-1828.
SDUK papers, UCL
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, ten letters, 1834.
College correspondence, UCL
Printed Material
ELIE HALEVY, Thomas Hodgskin, 1787-1869, ed. A. J. Taylor ( London, 1956).
New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase v 676; ESS VII 397.