Place, Francis 1771-1854
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1771 · died 1854
Francis Place was an English social reformer described as "a ubiquitous figure in the machinery of radical London."
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Manuscripts and working papers of books.
BL Add. MSS. 27789-27859.
The manuscript of Place’s autobiography, with correspondence and other papers.
BL Add. MSS. 35142-35154.
Commonplace books, 1775-1844.
BL Add. MSS. 36623-36628.
Letters to Place, 1813-1852.
BL Add. MSS. 37949-37950.
Place’s collection of newspaper cuttings, in 180 volumes, contains some manuscript letters.
BL Dept. of Printed Books.
Five letters to and from Place, 1823-1838.
London UL, A.L.s 99, 100, 251, 252, 356.
Several letters from Place to different correspondents, 1840.
Ely collection, Louisiana State UL, Baton Rouge.
A six-page manuscript of ‘Remarks upon Mr Ricardo’s Observations’.
Seligman collection, Columbia UL, New York.
Correspondents
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 36 letters, 1831-1852.
Brougham papers, University College London (UCL)
EDWIN CHADWICK, eight letters, 1829-1841.
Chadwick papers, UCL
RICHARD COBDEN, four letters, 1840-1849.
BL Add. MSS. 43667-43668.
JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1st Baron Broughton, c. 150 items, 1818-1831.
BL Add. MSS. 36457-36466.
GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, four letters, 1842-1850.
Holyoake collection, Co-operative Union Ltd, Manchester.
ROBERT OWEN, three letters, 1831-1838.
Owen correspondence, Co-operative Union Ltd, Manchester.
JOSEPH PARKES, five letters, 1851-1853.
Parkes papers, UCL
GEORGE JOHN SPENCER, 2nd Earl Spencer, three letters, 1822.
Spencer papers, National Register of Archives (NRA) 10410.
SAMUEL WHITBREAD, two letters, 1813.
Whitbread papers, Bedfordshire RO
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, five items, 1830.
Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
Printed Material
Autobiography of Francis Place , ed. Mary Thale ( London, 1972).
London Radicalism, 1830-1843: A Selection from the Papers of Francis Place , ed. D. J. Rowe ( London, 1970).
GRAHAM WALLAS, Life of Francis Place ( London, 1898). New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase II 1552; ESS XII 143.
Portraits: NPG; see Autobiography (above).