PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF

WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS

Volume III

Also by R. D. Collison Black

CENTENARY HISTORY OF THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY

OFIRELAND

ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND THE IRISH QUESTION, 1817-1870 A CATALOGUE OF PAMPHLETS ON ECONOMIC SUBjECTS,

1750- 1900 jEVONS'S THEORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY (editor)

THE ECONOMIC WRITINGS OF

MOUNTIFORT LONGFIELD (editor)

READINGS IN THE DEVELOPMENT

OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, 1776- 1848 PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF WILLIAM STANLEY

jEVONS, VOLUME I: BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL JOURNAL

(editor with Rosamond Konekamp)

VOLUME 11: CORRESPONDENCE, 1850- 1862 (editor)

VOLUME 111: CORRESPONDENCE, 1863- 1872 (editor)

VOLUME IV: CORRESPONDENCE, 1873- 1878 (editor)

VOLUME v: CORRESPONDENCE, 1879- 1882 (editor)

VOLUME VI: LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY,

1875- 1876 (editor)

VOLUME VII: PAPERS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY (editor)

PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE

OF

WILLIAM ST ANLEY JEVONS

Volume 111

CORRESPONDENCE r863- 1872

EDITED BY

R. D. COLLISON BLACK

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CONTENTS

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Letter 169 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons

18 J anuary 1863 1.70 William Stanley Jevons to John Smith

18 February 1863 171 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons

19 February 1863 172 William Stanley J evons to Thomas Edwin J evons

12 March 1863 173 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton

20 April 1863 174 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons

2 May 1863 175 William J evons Junior to William Stanley J evons

8 May 1863 176 William Stanley J evons to Thomas Edwin J evons

15 May 1863 177 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons

19 May 1863 178 John Elliott Cairnes to William Stanley Jevons

28 May 1863 179 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton

31 May 1863 180 William Stanley Jevons to John Elliott Cairnes

2 June 1863 IBI William Stanley Jevons to John Elliott Cairnes

3 June IB63 IB2 John Elliott Cairnes to William Stanley Jevons

4June 1863 IB3 Thomas Leach to William Stanley Jevons

20 June 1863 184 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons

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Letter 185 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 28

22 June 1863 186 William Jevons Junior to Williatn Stanley Jevons 31

8 July [1863] 187 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 33

24July 1863 188 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 33

23 August 1863 189 William Stanley J evons to Thomas Edwin J evons 35

30 August 1863 190 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 37

2 September 1863 191 HerbertJevons to William Stanley Jevons 38

13 September 1863 192 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons 42

15 September 1863 193 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 43

24 September 1863 194 Henry Fawcett to William Stanley Jevons 44

I October 1863 195 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons 45

17 November 1863 196 James Edwin Thorold Rogers to William Stanley Jevons 47

23 November 1863 197 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 48

19 December 1863 198 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton 48

IO January 1864 199 William Stanley Jevons to Thomas Edwin Jevons 49

17 January 1864 200 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons 50

Uanuary 1864] 20 I William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons 52

18 February 1864 202 William Stanley Jevons to John Elliott Cairnes 53

23 April 1864 203 David Miller Balfour to William Stanley Jevons 54

27 April 1864 204 John Elliott Cairnes to William Stanley Jevons 55

28 April 1864 205 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons 56

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Letter 206 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 58

18 July 1864-207 William Stanley Jevons to Henry Enfield Roscoe 59

27 August 1864-208 William Stanley Jevons to Sir John F. W. Herschel 60

27 September 1864-209 Etienne Laspeyres to William Stanley Jevons 61

20 November 1864-210 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons 62

[November or December 1864-] 21 I William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton 62

3 December 1864-212 William Whitaker to William Stanley Jevons 63

13 December 1864-2 I 3 William Stanley J evons to J ohn Elliott Cairnes 64-

5 January [1 865] 214- Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from Joseph 65

Gouge Greenwood 20 January 1865

215 Etienne Laspeyres to William Stanley Jevons 66 18 March 1865

216 James Edwin Thorold Rogers to William Stanley Jevons 67 23 March [1865]

2 I 7 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons 68 25 May 1865

2 18 William J evons Junior to William Stanley J evons 69 26 May 1865

219 Edward John Broadfield to William Stanley Jevons 70 30 May 1865

220 Somerset Archibald Beaumont to William Stanley Jevons 71 26 July 1865

22 I Edward John Broadfield to William Stanley Jevons 72 27 July 1865

222 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons 72 27 July [1 865]

223 Herbert Jevons to William Stanley Jevons 74-15 September 1865

224- Timothy Jevons to William Stanley Jevons 75 23 September [1865]

225 Joseph Gouge Greenwood to William Stanley Jevons 75 25 September 1865

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Letter 226 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 76

18 October 1865 227 Sir John F. W. Herschel to William Stanley Jevons 77

23 November 1865 228 Thomas Edwin Jevons to William Stanley Jevons 78

28 November 1865 229 William Stanley Jevons to Sir John F. W. Herschel 80

14 December 1865 230 Etienne Laspeyres to William Stanley Jevons 81

22 December 1865 231 William Stanley Jevons to Sir John F. W. Herschel 83

29 December 1865 232 Sir John F. W. Herschel to William Stanley Jevons 83

8 J anuary 1866 233 Alexander Macmillan to William Stanley Jevons 84

3 March 1866 234 William Stanley Jevons to Sir John F. W. Herschel 85

7 March 1866 235 Sir John F. W. Herschel to William Stanley Jevons 85

8 March 1866 236 Walter Bagehot to William Stanley Jevons 86

10 March 1866 237 John Towne Danson to William Stanley Jevons 86

I I March 1866 238 William Ewart Gladstone to William Stanley Jevons 87

16 March 1866 239 William Stanley Jevons to HerbertJevons 88

24 March 1866 240 Joseph Gouge Greenwood to William Stanley Jevons 89

30 March 1866 241 William Stanley Jevons to William Ewart Gladstone 90

April 1866 242 William Stanley Jevons to William Ewart Gladstone 91

[April 1866] 243 William Stanley Jevons to William Ewart Gladstone 92

April 1866 244 Edward John Broadfield to William Stanley Jevons 93

20 April 1866 245 William Stanley Jevons to John Stuart Mill 94

20 April 1866 246 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons 95

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Letter 247 Timothy Jevons to William Stanley Jevons

24 April [I 866] 248 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton

26 April 1866 249 William Stanley J evons to The Times

27 April 1866 250 Alfred Tennyson to William Stanley Jevons

28 April 1866 251 Edward John Broadfield to William Stanley Jevons

29 April 1866 252 Robert Bellamy Clifton to William Stanley Jevons

4 May 1866 253 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton

9 May 1866 254 William Stanley Jevons to The Times

12 May 1866 255 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons

13 May 1866 256 William Stanley Jevons to the Trustees of Owens College,

Manchester [May 1866]

256(1) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from Alexander Bain I4January 1865

256(2) John Elliott Cairnes to William Stanley Jevons 8 January 1865

256(3) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons [rom Augustus de Morgan 9 January 1865

256(4) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from Henry Fawcett 7 January 1865

256(5) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from John Hoppus 13 January 1865

256(6) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from Richard Holt Hutton 7 January 1865

256(7) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from J am es Martineau 7 January 1865

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Letter 256(8) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from

Alexander J ohn Scott Uanuary 1865]

Jacob Waley to William Stanley Jevons 9 January 1865

Walter Bagehot to William Stanley Jevons 10 March 1866

William Farr to William Stanley Jevons 16 March 1866

Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from David Masson 9 March 1866

Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from William N ewmarch 9 March 1866

James Edwin Thorold Rogers to William Stanley Jevons 12 March 1866

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256(15) Archibald Sandeman to William Stanley Jevons 116 9 March 1866

256( 16) William Ewart Gladstone to Alexander Macmillan 117 24 February 1866

256( 17) William Ewart Gladstone to William Stanley J evons 117 16 March 1866

256(18) Sir John F. W. Herschel to William Stanley Jevons 117 23 November 1865

256(19) Herbert Spencer to William Stanley Jevons 117 9 January 1866

256(20) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from Edward John Broadfield 118 2 May 1866

256(21) Extract from a speech by John Stuart Mill 119 17 April 1866

256(22) Testimonial for William Stanley Jevons from John Stuart Mill 120 4 May 1866

257 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Lucy Hutton 120 21 May 1866

258 Richard Copley Christie to William S tanley J evons 12 I 31 May 1866

259 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons 121 4June 1866

Letter 260 William Stanley Jevons to Sir John F. W. Hersehe!

23 June 1866 261 Sir John F. W. Hersehe! to William Stanley Jevons

30 June 1866 262 William Stanley Jevons to Alexander Maemillan

4 July 1866 263 Etienne Laspeyres to William Stanley Jevons

7 July 1866 264 William Stanley Jevons to Mrs Luey Hutton

18 July 1866 265 Timothy Jevons to William Stanley Jevons

30 September [1866] 266 'A British Workman' to the Manchester Examiner

and Times 15 October 1866

267 'A Cobdenite' to the Manchester Examiner and Times 19 Oetober 1866

268 William Stanley Jevons to the Manchester Examiner

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and Times 131 19 Oetober 1866

269 W. Maedonald to the Manchester City News 132 25 Oetober 1866

270 William Stanley Jevons to the Manchester City News 137 1 November 1866

271 William Stanley Jevons to Alexander Maemillan 139 7 November 1866

272 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 139 20 November 1866

273 William Stanley Jevons to John Mills 140 23 November 1866

274 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 141 13 Deeember 1866

275 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 144 [22 Deeember 1866]

276 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons 148 24 Deeember [1866]

277 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 148 28 Deeember 1866

278 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 15 1

19 January 1867 279 Sir Roderiek Impey Murehison to William Stanley Jevons 154

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Letter 279 A William Stanley Jevons to Sir Benjamin Brodie 155

25 May 1867 279 B Sir Benjamin Brodie to William Stanley Jevons 155

27 May 1867 279c William Stanley Jevons to Sir Benjamin Brodie 156

29 May 1867 280 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 157

25 September 1867 281 Sir John Lubbock to William Stanley Jevons 159

5 December 1867 282 William Stanley Jevons to Alexander Macmillan 160

7 December 1867 283 Sir John Lubbock to William Stanley Jevons 160

12 December 1867 284 John Bright to William Stanley Jevons 161

20 J anuary 1868 285 John Laing to William Stanley Jevons 161

24 January 1868 286 Alfred Latham to William Stanley J evons 162

31 January 1868 287 Alfred Latham to William Stanley Jevons 163

I February 1868 288 Thomas Graham to William Stanley J evons 164

3 February 1868 289 William Stanley J evons to George J acob Holyoake 165

5 February 1868 290 Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin to William Stanley Jevons 167

4 March 1868 29 1 Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin to William Stanley Jevons 172

I I March 1868 292 Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin to William Stanley Jevons 178

I I March 1868 293 Alfred Latham to William Stanley Jevons 179

20 March 1868 294 William Samuel Walliker to William Stanley Jevons 179

24 March 1868 295 William Jevons Junior to William Stanley Jevons 180

24 March 1868 296 Sir Charles Rivers Wilson to William Stanley Jevons 181

30 March 1868 297 Richard Valpy to William Stanley Jevons 181

I I April 1868

Letter 298 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons

18 April 1868 299 William Stanley Jevons to John Benjamin Smith

21 April 1868 300 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons

23 June 1868 301 Sir George Biddell Airy to William Stanley J evons

1 July 1868 . 302 Thomas Graham to William Stanley Jevons

1 October 1868 303 B. W. Farey to William Stanley Jevons

2 October 1868 304 R. Griffith to William Stanley Jevons

8 October 1868 305 H. W. Roberts to William Stanley Jevons

8 October 1868 306 W. McKewan to William Stanley Jevons

28 October 1868 307 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons

20 November 1868 308 E. W. Johnson to William Stanley Jevons

25 November 1868 309 Louis Wolowski to William Stanley Jevons

7 December 1868 310 Louis Wolowski to William Stanley Jevons

18 December 1868 311 George Walker to William Stanley Jevons

28 December 1868 312 George Walker to William Stanley Jevons

1 March 1869 313 William Stanley Jevons to HerbertJevons

23 March 1869 314 Elijah Helm to William Stanley Jevons

6 April 1869 315 John Elliott Cairnes to William Stanley Jevons

15 April 1869 316 Michel Chevalier to William Stanley Jevons

31 May 186g 317 William Stanley J evons to Herbert J evons

7 July 1869 318 William Stanley Jevons to The Times

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Letter 319 John Thomas Smith to William Stanley Jevons 215

3 I August 1869 320 Sir John F. W. Hersehel to William Stanley Jevons 216

[September 1869] 321 William Stanley Jevons to The Times 217

7 September 1869 322 Henry William Field to William Stanley Jevons 221

13 September 1869 323 Henry William Field to William Stanley Jevons 224

28 September 1869 324 George Whitehead to William Stanley Jevons 225

5 November 1869 325 Henry Jevons to William Stanley Jevons 226

8 November 1869 326 George Whitehead to William Stanley Jevons 228

9 November 1869 327 Henry Jevons to William Stanley Jevons 229

[13 November 1869] 327 A William Millington to Jevons & Co. 230

10 November 1869 328 William Stanley Jevons to Harriet Jevons 23 I

3 Deeember 1869 329 William Stanley Jevons to John Benjamin Smith 232

24 April 1870 330 William Stanley Jevons to Edward Enfield 233

19 July 1870 331 William Stanley Jevons to John Robson 234

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331A William Stanley Jevons to William Ballantyne Hodgson 235 II August 1870

332 Sir Joseph Norman Loekyer to William Stanley Jevons 236 9 September [1870 ]

333 William Stanley Jevons to Sir John F. W. Hersehel 236 29 Oetober 1870

334 Sir John F. W. Hersehel to William Stanley Jevons 237 10 November 1870

335 Francis Bowen to William Stanley Jevons 239 23 November 1870

336 William Stanley J evons to Alexander Maemillan 240 28 March 1871

337 William Stanley Jevons to Alexander Maemillan 241 30 March 1871

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Letter 338 Robert Dudley Baxter to William Stanley Jevons 242

19 April 1871 339 William Stanley Jevons to Hyde Clarke 243

24June 1871 340 William Stanley Jevons to John Mills 244

17 October 1871 341 William Lucas Sargant to William Stanley Jevons 244

290ctober 1871 342 Robert Lowe to William Stanley Jevons 245

[October 1871] 343 William Stanley Jevons to John Elliott Cairnes 245

14January 1872 344 Albert B. Hopkins to William Stanley Jevons 247

1 1 April 1872 345 William Stanley Jevons to Herbert Jevons 249

12 May 1872 346 William Stanley Jevons to Alexander Macmillan 249

13 September 1872 347 William Stanley Jevons to John Elliott Cairnes 251

5 October 1872 348 William Stanley Jevons to John Lancelot Shadwell 253

17 October 1872 349 William Stanley Jevons to John Lancelot Shadwell 254

5 December 1872 350 Henry and Robert Langton to William Stanley Jevons 256

17 December 1872

A complete index to the Papers and Correspondence, Lectures, and Papers on Political Economy will be contained in Volume VII.

PREFACE

In the Preface to Volume I of this series a plan for subsequent volumes was indicated. According to this, the whole of J evons's correspondence was to be included in two volumes, Volume II comprising letters up to 1862 and Volume III those from 1863 until 1882. A fourth volume was to contain the complete transcript of the lectures on political economy given· by Jevons at Owens College, Manchester, in 1875-6, the text of all Jevons's papers on economic subjects previously published but not collected together, and a number of other items selected to cast light on the development and reception of Jevons's economic ideas.

Volume II was published as planned in 1973, but two developments have since compelled changes in the arrangement of the later volumes. Firstly, the quantity of correspondence for the years 1863 to 1882 was increased by a number of discoveries of material outside the main collection originally made available to me by Mrs Könekamp, so that the number of letters became greater than could be contained even in one very large volume. Secondly, the great acceleration of rates of inflation since 1973 has produced rises in printing costs so large as to make it impossible for Macmillan to maintain the original size and format ofthe volumes. Hence it has proved necessary to divide the correspondence for the years 1863 to 1882 into three volumes, now numbered III, IV and V, while the material originally intended to constitute Volume IV has had to be divided over two further volumes, now numbered VI and VII.

I apologise to readers for this deviation from the plan originally published, but trust that they will recognise it as the result of circum­stances largely outside my control. Although the form ofthe volumes has been altered, their content has not been reduced and all the material wh ich it was originally intended to publish will now appear in this and succeeding volumes. The complete index which it was originally stated would appear in Volume IV will now be included at the end ofVolume VII. Additionalletters which have come to light since the publication of Volume II are numbered with asuffix, e.g. '279A'. This seeminglyclumsy method of insertion has been preferred to the neater alternative of renumbering the whole sequence of correspondence, because to have done this would have upset cross-references which had already been published in Volumes I and II.

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The present volume covers correspondence during the years 1863 to 1872, years which saw the foundation ofJ evons's academic career and the beginnings ofhis national and international reputation as an economist. In the earlier part of the volume family letters still predominate, and reflect the hopes and fears about his appointment at Owens College which also found expression at this time in Jevons's personal journal. 1

Mixed with these are his feelings of elation and trepidation at finding hirnself almost overnight an authority being widely quoted in national controversies - and the contributions which Jevons made to the 'gold question' and the 'coal question' brought a 'public' element into his correspondence for the first time, as he began to exchange letters with such men as Gladstone, Bagehot and Sir John Herschel in and after 1866. There are also the beginnings of correspondence with foreign scholars, such as Etienne Laspeyres and Louis Wolowski; but from the point of view of economic theory perhaps the greatest interest attaches to the letters from FleemingJ enkin on the theory of exchange, which stimulated Jevons to give the ideas which he had sketched out in 1862 2 full expression in The Theory of Political Economy in 1871.

In the Prefaces to Volumes land 11 I have acknowledged some ofthe debts which I have accumulated for help in the process of editing these papers. Since that time their sum has been greatly increased, both by further help from those patient and helpful friends and colleagues who had often aided me before and by new help from many others. My Research Officer, MrsJ. Wright, has throughout been my main source of assistance in searching for material and locating references; without her expert knowledge and continuing interest what has proved a lengthy process must inevitably have been much longer. For much hard work in the process of typing the complex and va ried manuscripts from which these volumes have been compiled I am grateful to Mrs P. Finn.

For help in locating and identifying material published in this and subsequent volumes my thanks are due particularly to Professor Crau­furd D. Goodwin ofDuke University and Miss Mary Canada, Reference Librarian of Duke University Library, who provided biographical information about D. M. Balfour and assisted with other American references, as did Dr Kenneth Carpenter, Librarian ofthe Kress Library at Harvard University; to Professor R. H. Tener, Department ofEnglish, University ofCalgary, for information about the papers ofR. H. Hutton; to the Director of the Central State Historical Archive at Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, who supplied biographical information on Ernst Nauck and other information about the early history of the Riga

1 See Vol. I, especially pp. 205~6. 2 In 'A Brief Account of a General Mathematical Theory ofPolitical Economy', JRSS, 29 (1866)

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Polytechnic, which was kindly translated for me by my colleague, Professor M. C. Wheeler; and to MrsJ. Percival, Archivist ofUniversity College l.ondon, who helped me to trace the details of the donation of Parliamentary Papers from that college to Owens College, Manchester, whichJevons negotiated, as weIl as to establish many other points about his connections with University College.

I should also like to record my gratitude to Dr G. Chandler and Miss J anet Smith, of the Liverpool Record Office, for locating information concerning Jevons's appointment to the staff of Queen's College, Liverpool; to Mr Barnes, of the Archive Section of the Bank of England, for allowing me access to the staff records of the Bank to trace the career of John Laing; and to Mr Colin Davis, Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, for biographical information on William Macdonald. Similar information was kindly provided concerning Charles Upton by Rev. Brian Golland, General Secretary to the Assembly of the U nitarian and Free Christian Churches; concerning A. B. Hopkins by Mr W. A. Taylor, City Librarian of Birmingham; concerning George Whitehead by Mr D. J. Bryant, Chief Librarian, Kingston upon Hull City Libraries; and concerning B. W. Farey by Mr C. W. Ashton, Director, the Bryan Donkin Co. Ltd, Chesterfield, and Mr R. T. Everett, Librarian of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London. To all these I should like to express my thanks, as also to Mr P. Spiro, Librarian ofthe Institute ofBankers, London, who assisted with biographical information on H. W. Roberts and William McKewan; to the Librarian, Chetham's Library, Manchester, for information on papers read by J. C. Ollerenshaw and E. Langley to the Manchester Statistical Society; to my colleague Mr Alun Davies, of the Department of Economic and Social History, Queen's University Belfast, for information about the Paris Exhibition of r867 and the Electrical Exhibition of r88r; and to Mrs Kathryn Green, who researched a number ofManchester references for me. For permission to make use of manuscript material ofwhich they have custody, or in which they hold the copyright, my thanks are due to Sir William Gladstone, Bt, the Rt Hon. PatrickJenkin, M.P., Dr Wolfe Mays, Dr M. A. T. Rogers, the Rt Hon. Norman St-John Stevas, M.P., Mrs R. T. Sneyd, the British Library Board, the Trustees of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, the Co-operative Union, Ltd, Manchester, the Librarian, University of Leicester, the Cultural Services Committee of the Corporation of the City of Manchester, Dr F. W. Ratdiffe, John Rylands Librarian ofthe University ofManchester, the Directors of the Macmillan Press L td, the Trustees of the National Library ofIreland, the Directors of the National Westminster Bank, the President and Council of the Royal Society, the President and Council of the Royal Statistical

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Society, the Directors of Times Newspapers Ltd, the Council of University College London, and P. S. Laurie Esq., Archivist, the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Queen's University Belfast November /975

R. D. COLLISON BLACK

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS used throughou t the volumes

Relating to Jevons material

LJ Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, edi ted by his wife (1886). LJN Previously published in LJ; manuscript not now in J evons

Papers, or other known location. LJP Previously published in LJ, but only in part; fuller text now

given from the orginal manuscript in theJ evons Papers or other indicated location.

WM From a manuscript made available by Dr Wolfe Mays, U niversity of Manchester.

Investigations Investigations in Currenry and Finance, by W. Stanley Jevons. Edited, with an Introduction, by H. S. Foxwell (1884). All page references to first edition.

Methods Methods of Social Reform and other papers, by W. Stanley Jevons (1883).

T.P.E. The Theory of Political Economy by W. Stanley Jevons (Ist ed. 187 I, 4th ed. 191 I). All page references to fourth edition, unless otherwise stated.

Relating to other material

BM FW HLRS JRSS KCP LSE

MA NYPL RDF TLJM

British Museum, London (now British Library). Fonds Walras, Bibliotheque Cantonale de Lausanne. Herschel Letters, Royal Society, London. Journal of the London (later Royal) Statistical Sociery. Palgrave Papers in the Library ofKing's College, Cambridge. London School of Economics, British Library of Political and Economic Science. Archives of Macmillan & Co. Ltd. New York Public Library. From a manuscript made available by Mr R. D. Freeman. Isabel Mills, From Tinder Box to the 'Larger Light'. Threadsfrom the Life of John Mills, Banker (Manchester, 1899).

Walras Correspondence Correspondence of Leon Walras and Related Papers edited by William Jaffe (3 vols, Amsterdam, 1965).

Figures following any of these abbreviations denote page numbers.