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The Quorum 1101 King Street Barnwell Road Alexandria, VA 22314 Cambridge CBS SSW USA UK A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 85964 233 X Printed by Bookcraft Ltd, Midsomer Norton, UK CONTENTS Introductory notes IX Abbreviations Xl GENERAL SUBJECTS lA India Office Clerk 1906-8 1 IC Indian Currency and Finance (1913) 1 ID Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency 1913-14 2 IE Indian Fiscal Commission 1921 3 IF Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance 1926 3 T Treasury Official1915-19: War Finance 3 PT Treasury Official1915-19: Planning Post-War Reconstruction 7 RT Treasury Official1915-19: Paris Peace Conference 9 EC Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) 13 FI International Finance and German Reparations 1919-23 16 RP Revision of the Treaty (1922) 17 IN 'Method of Index Numbers' (1909) 19 TP Treatise on Probability (1921) 19 MR Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) 21 TM Treatise on Money (1930) 22 c Cotton 1926-31 23 ND Committee on National Debt and Taxation- Colwyn Committee 1924-5 24 MC Committee on Finance and Industry- Macmillan Committee 1930-1 24 EA Economic Advisory Council1930-9 25 LB Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting 1932 26 p Essays in Persuasion (1931) 26 B Essays in Biography (1933) 26 GTE The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) 27 w War 1939-45 28 HP How to Pay for the War (1940) 30 vi VISITS RV Russian Visit 1925 32 AV American Visits 1931 and 1934 32 ARTICLES, SPEECHES, BROADCASTS, ETC. ss Special Subjects 33 A Articles, including Book Reviews and Letters to the Press 33 PS Speeches, Lectures outside Cambridge University 45 BR Broadcasts 49 M Memoranda 50 CAC Articles, Memoranda, Letters to the Press, Written in Collaboration 50 co Comments by JMK on Articles, Memoranda, etc. received 51 L Letters. (Arranged by year and under individuals) 56 EDITORIAL AND SOCIETIES EJ Economic Journal 61 RES Royal Economic Society 63 GS Manchester Guardian Commercial: Reconstruction Supplements 63 CEB Cambridge Economic Handbooks 64 CE Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 64 RSS Royal Statistical Society 64 BA British Academy 64 ES Econometric Society 65 NIS National Institute of Social and Economic Research 65 LCE London and Cambridge Economic Service 65 BAA British Association for the Advancement of Science 65 BUSINESS INTERESTS NM National Mutual Life Assurance Society 66 NS Nation and Athenaeum; New Statesman and Nation 67 PR P. R. Finance Company Ltd. 68 AD A. D. Investment Trust Ltd. 69 IIC Independent Investment Company Ltd. 69 vii BM Memoranda Exchanged with Business Houses 70 WF Richard Thomas and Company Ltd. 70 PC Provincial Insurance Company Ltd. 71 BE Bank of England - Director 71 BUSINESS PERSONAL BP Publishing Companies 72 SE Finance 72 TH Tilton House 74 IT Income Tax 74 TC Tilton Company Ltd. 75 G Gifts 75 SY The Syndicate 1920 75 EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OC Organisations and Clubs 76 GE Eton College - Fellow 76 KC King's College 77 UA University Affairs 78 PERSONAL PAPERS OF J. M. KEYNES pp Personal and family records 85 School records 87 Juvenile writings 88 Diaries 89 Correspondence 90 Accounts 103 Records of subsidiary interests:- Rare books and manuscripts 104 Works of art 106 Theatre 107 Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (C.E.M.A.) 108 Photographs 108 viii Drawings and cartoons 111 Manuscripts 112 Posthumous biographical material 118 PERSONAL PAPERS OF LYDIA LOPOKOVA KEYNES LLK Ballet 119 Drama 120 Broadcasts, Talks, Public Speaking 120 Articles and Reviews by LLK 122 Correspondence 123 Biographica 128 Photographs and Drawings 129 Posthumous 130 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, NOT PART OF THE KEYNES PAPERS MM Papers of E. A. G. Robinson: Economic Journal editorial correspondence 131 King's College Fellowship Dissertations 131 Card index of JMK' s correspondence 131 Concordance of former and present reference numbers 133 Index 147 ix INTRODUCTORY NOTES Administrative History In his will, J. M. Keynes instructed his executors, Geoffrey Keynes and Richard Kahn, to divide his papers in two on his death, into the 'personal' and the 'economic', Keynes to take responsibility for the former and Kahn the latter. The will further directed that Geoffrey Keynes deposit his share in King's College Library and that on the executor's death ownership pass to the College. Subsequently, smaller additions to the juvenilia, family papers and correspondence making up this part of the collection were made by members of the Keynes family. Richard Kahn was also instructed to hand over the much larger accumulation of writing and correspondence on economic theory, the economy and business affairs in his care, this time to the Marshall Library in the University's Faculty of Economics and Politics. In succeeding decades, further transfers of papers were made to the Marshall Library, the most significant batch in 1976 from Keynes' country house, Tilton. It was during their time at the Marshall Library that selected economics papers became the core of the Royal Economic Society's edition of Keynes' works The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan/CUP, 1971-89) [hereafter CW]. In 1986 the Faculty Board of Economics and Politics presented its share to King's College Library, reuniting the entire collection in the Modem Archive Centre. Catalogue The first summary listings of the Keynes Papers were undertaken in King's and the Marshall Libraries in the mid 1950s, by, respectively, Dr A. N. L. Munby and Mrs Macdonald. Both parts of the collection were extensively consulted on the basis of these lists. On their amalgamation at King's College, however, the opportunity was taken to produce an integrated, more detailed catalogue; one which would also take account of the accumulation of material since the initial transfer and recognise that the division between the personal and economic had resulted in anomalies. Philosophy papers for instance appeared in both parts. Already in 1984 Keynes' engagement diaries had been transferred to King's from the Marshall in an attempt to iron out one discrepancy. Completed in 1993, this new catalogue has, for the material formerly housed in the Marshall Library (roughly that described on pp. 1-84), largely retained the arrangement of the earlier list, where papers were filed by subject. Within subject sections, however, certain files have been reorganised, their contents amalgamated with files on the same subjects from later transfers (especially those items previously catalogued as MM/) and their descriptions enlarged. The original box list of the personal papers has been completely reworked (on pp.85-118). In certain cases, to improve coherence, material has been moved from one economics subject section to another or from the personal to the economics 'halves' of the collection; for example, Keynes' papers to the Apostles are now all catalogued as UA/; the contents of the economics section entitled 'MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL' (referred to as MM/) has been largely absorbed into the main corpus of the catalogue. A concordance of former and current document references is provided on pp. 133-46 to aid in tracing these alterations in position. The Reel number given in the margin refers to the Chadwyck-Healey Microfilm Edition of the John Maynard Keynes Papers. X Indexes This catalogue is indexed on pp. 147-61. Additionally, the papers transferred from the Marshall Library were accompanied by a useful index. To help them in their work on the CW, the editors at the Marshall Library compiled an index in the 1950s and 1960s to much, but not all, of the correspondence then in their custody It should be stressed that it was never a complete finding aid. It was not extended to take in subsequent transfers of material from Tilton and other sources in the 1970s and 1980s. Nor, of course, did it encompass the personal papers of J. M. Keynes then housed in King's College Library Since the reunion of the Keynes Papers at King's, this index has been updated to take account of:- 1. the reorganisation and renumbering of certain sections of the collection; ii. the amalgamation of material from the later Tilton transfers with existing files on the same subject (e.g. GTE/); iii. the full listing of Keynes' personal correspondence catalogued as PP I 45. Index cards are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Each card itemises the letters exchanged between the correspondent and Keynes, giving their dates and file references. Occasionally, correspondence between the letter writer and other individuals is also recorded.