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MODES for Windows Print Marshall Library of Economics J.N. Keynes Papers Sections 2 - 5 Identity code JNKeynes 2/1 Previous number Keynes 3(37-48) Description level 4 Record creation Date 8.6.1951 (postmark) Place Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Envelope Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Envelope addressed to Mrs. F.A. Keynes, J.P., but address crossed out. Annotated in ink, in Mrs. Keynes's hand, "Letters in reference to 'Formal Logic' by J.N.K." Once contained letters now numbered JNKeynes 2/2 - 2/13. Free field Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary Brown manila envelope, 229 mm x 151 mm Condition Somewhat creased; small tear and small red stain on reverse Identity code JNKeynes 2/2 Previous number Keynes 3(38) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Bryant, Sophie Descriptor Doctor of Science, Moral Science branch, London University Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 10.4.1884 Place London, N., 2 Anson Road Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Thanks Keynes for sending her copy of ['Studies and Exercises in] Formal Logic'. Compliments him on methodology. Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet; 3 pp. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Reference Identity code JNKeynes 2/3 Previous number Keynes 3(37) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name d'Alfonso, Nicolo Descriptor Professor of Philosophy Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 5.6.1886 Place Italy, Santa Severina di Calabria Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language French Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Thanks Keynes for sending him copy of ['Studies and Exercises in] Formal Logic', which he will use in teaching. Asks Keynes to send him any later writings on philosophy. Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet lined paper; 1 p. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Reference Identity code JNKeynes 2/4 Previous number Keynes 3(40) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Marshall, Alfred Descriptor Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and Lecturer in Political Economy Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 15.2.l884 Place Oxford, 46 Woodstock Road Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Has just received [first edition of 'Studies and Exercises in] Formal Logic'. "As far as I can judge, it seems to be a beautiful specimen of thorough Cambridge work, and likely to be of very great service. I think it will help to extend the scope of Formal Logic in education." Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet; 1 p. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Verbatim transcript Reference Whitaker, John K., ed., 'The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist', 3 vols, (Cambridge, 1996), letter no. 136 Type Excerpt Reference Groenewegen, Peter, 'A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall 1842-1924', (Aldershot, 1995), p. 681 Identity code JNKeynes 2/5 Previous number Keynes 3(41) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Nicholson, Joseph Shield Descriptor Professor of Political Economy, Edinburgh University Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 13.2.1884 Place [Scotland, Edinburgh] 15 Jordan Lane Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Thanks Keynes for copy of [first edition of 'Studies and Exercises in] Formal Logic'. Has only had time to glance at it, but wishes he had had such a book when he was coaching. Hopes Keynes will construct "a complete text book". Honoured that Keynes has inserted some of Nicholson's problems in the book. Summary Gives him names of two young acquaintances just going up to Trinity, would be glad if Keynes could assist them in any way. Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet; 2 pp. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Reference Identity code JNKeynes 2/6 Previous number Keynes 3(42) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Descriptor Writer on Banking and Editor of 'Dictionary of Political Economy' Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 1.7.1886 Place [Norfolk] Great Yarmouth, Belton Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Thanks Keynes for book [first edition of 'Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic'] and examination papers. Thought the Political Economy set very well put. Finds book difficult, wishes Keynes had given a key to the answers. Summary Thinks it cruel of [William Stanley] Jevons not to have given his own reply to the last sentence of his 'Studies [in Deductive Logic']. Keynes must not interpret these remarks as critical. Summary Sending separately copies of all reprints of Report of Bank of France he can get hold of. Report for l881 is missing. Asks Keynes not to destroy them. Reports show what demands of mob government on a central institution may be, one of his reasons for opposing centralized note issue. Bank of France was never repaid what Commune extorted, and might have been far more pillaged. Glad if Keynes would show reports to [Alfred] Marshall and any other Cambridge friends with views on note issues. Person Name Jevons, William Stanley & Marshall, Alfred Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet; 4 pp. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Reference Identity code JNKeynes 2/7 Previous number Keynes 3(43) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Read, Carveth Descriptor Lecturer in Philosophy and Literature at Wren's coaching establishment, London, later Grote Professor of Philosophy, London University Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 15.2.1884 Place [London] W., Notting Hill, 61 Blenheim Crescent Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Thanks Keynes for book [first edition of 'Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic'], a monument of ingenuity. Thankful he will never be examined on latter part of it. Acknowledges error in his own work caught by Keynes. Has Keynes read A[dam] Sidgwick's 'Fallacies' and does he think well of it? If so, Read would like to tell Sidgwick, who is depressed by some reviews. Person Name Sidgwick, Adam Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet; 3 pp. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Reference Identity code JNKeynes 2/8 Previous number Keynes 3(44) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Robertson, George Croom Descriptor Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic, University College London Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 16.2.1884 Place [London] W., 31 Kensington Park Gardens Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada] Keynes Content Summary Thanks him for copy of 'Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic'. Much more useful than [William Stanley] Jevons's 'Studies in Deductive Logic'. Will read book through carefully, particularly Fourth Part where Keynes tackles something which he himself had essayed here and there. If not so behind in other work, would like to review it in 'Mind', but instead is asking [John] Venn to do so quickly. If he agrees, this would be best for book. Summary Wishes Keynes would submit short articles for 'Mind', for instance a critique of [Francis Herbert] Bradley's book ['Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay' (l883)] which needs "some hacking-at in detail". Person Name Jevons, William Stanley & Venn, John & Bradley, Francis Herbert Subject keywords Mind Subject keywords JNKeynes - Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Physical descript Summary 1 sheet; 2 pp. text Condition Sound Publication record Type Reference Identity code JNKeynes 2/9 Previous number Keynes 3(39) Description level 4 Record creation Person Role Writer Name Johnson, William Ernest Descriptor Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Person Role Recipient Name Keynes, John Neville Descriptor Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge University Date 1.8.1887 Place [Dorset] Weymouth, St John's Villa Document form Record type Correspondence Specific type Letter Language English Acquisition Summary Deposited by Mrs. J.N. [Florence Ada]
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