HERBERT STANLEY JEVONS (1)
Donated 1977 by Mrs Rosamond Könekamp, Newport, Pembrokeshire
COMPILED BY K. MONICA DAVIES, MAY 1983-APRIL 1985
Papers of Herbert Stanley Jevons (1875-1955), economist, including papers relating
to his advisory work in India, mostly 1918-30, and Abyssinia, 1935-53.
Schedules (1963), 19 pp.; (1965), 7 pp. AR 1962-63, p. 56; 1964-65, pp. 58-9.
CONTENTS
I.
Published Works
II
Unpublished Works
III.
Articles, etc., by H. S. Jevons
IV.
Files of correspondence, material, etc., on various subjects
V.
Correspondence
VI.
Abyssinia
VII.
Jevons, H. Stanley. Miscellanea
VIII.
Miscellaneous typescripts, etc.
IX-XIV.
Printed Matter
I.
Published Works
1. Material for Economic Equality in the Cooperative Commonwealth, 1933.
2. Correspondence and notes, 1915-19, relating to the British Coal Trade, 1915.
3. Correspondence, 1928-30, relating to Money Exchange and Banking in India,
1922.
4. Material relating to Political Economy by W. Stanley Jevons, revised by H.
Stanley Jevons, 1926.
II.
Unpublished Works
5. ‘A review of the Economic Policy followed by England in the 19th century and by
countries now her rivals’ [after 1918].
6. ‘The Social Revolution’, 1919. Chapter V missing.
7. ‘Life in India’, 1930 - correspondence relating to a proposed book.
8. ‘The Problem of War’, 1932.
9. ‘Utopia’, 1935 - typescripts, correspondence, etc.
10. ‘Why Federation Means Peace’, 1940.
11. ‘Union with Germany’, 1935. Chapters I-IV and VI.
12-13. ‘The Future of India’. Chapter 8 missing.
III.
Articles, etc., by Henry Stanley Jevons
14. ‘Abundance for all through Common Ownership’. MS and typescript.
15. ‘The Adverse Trade Balance’. Co-operative News, Christmas 1931. Typescript.
16. ‘Affection Peripherally aroused’.
17. ‘Agriculture and Economic Progress in Burma’, Rangoon Times, 1926.
Typescript.
18. ‘An answer to Viscount Rothermere’s review of Britain’s Economic Policy’,
which appeared in the Sunday Dispatch, Jan. 1931. Incomplete.
18a. ‘Banks, Prices and Unemployment’, 1931. Typescript.
19. ‘The British Civil Service’, 1931. Typescript.
20. ‘Causes of Fluctuations of Industrial Activity and the Price Level’, a paper read
before the Royal Statistical Society, 16 May 1933. MS and typescript.
21. ‘A City Commonwealth’ (marked ‘not to be printed’). Cyclostyled copy.
22. Civics Lectures delivered at the University of Allahabad, 1918-19.
23. ‘Closing the Suez Canal: a suggestion for united action by the Peace Movement’.
Typescript.
24. ‘Co-operation in the Economic Structure’. Typescript.
25. ‘Co-operation for the Unemployed’. MS and typescript.
26. ‘The Course of Exchange between London and Paris before the Revolution’.
Typescript.
27. ‘Death on the Roads’. Typescript (signed).
28. ‘The Decline and Fall of the Free Trade System’. Typescript (signed).
29. ‘Economic Development of India’. MS and typescript.
30. Economic Science and Social Progress notes.
31. ‘The Economics of Full Employment’. Typescript.
32. ‘The Future of British Agriculture’. MS and typescript.
33. ‘The Future of the League of Nations’. Typescript.
34. ‘The Great Discoveries of Prehistoric Man’, 1927. Typescript.
35. ‘Health and Economy in the Home’, 1945. MS and typescript.
36. ‘How to reduce road accidents’, 1934. Typescript (signed).
37. ‘How will Burma Vote?’, 1942. Published in Reynolds’ News.
38. ‘A Humane Economy’ - a letter to New Britain, 1933. MS and typescript.
39. ‘Japanese Expansion’, 1941-2. MS and typescript.
40. ‘Japan’s Expansion in Trade Depressions, 1932’. MS and typescript.
41. ‘Kindly Words;.
42. ‘Mexican Oil Project (Memorandum), 1938’. Typescript.
43. Memorandum on the Development of Railways in the Gwalior State, 1917.
Typescript (signed).
44. Memorandum on Proposed Research, 1931. MS and typescript.
45. Notes in search of a Theory of the Apportionment of the Earth’s habitable
surface between the existing Races of Man, 1924. Typescript (signed).
46. Note of an interview with Col. T. Dunlop Young, Veterinary Inspector to
the City of London, 1931. Typescript.
47. Notes on the Co-operative Movement in Burma. Typescript.
48. ‘Note on Agreement for publishing ‘Seed of Chaos’’, 16 May 1944.
49. Note on Land reclamation and improvement, 1920. Typescript.
50. Notes on Socialist Retail Distribution. Typescript.
51. ‘Organisation of Industry under Socialism’. Typescript.
52. ‘A Political Meeting in India’, 1922.
53. The Present International Situation’. Typescript.
54. ‘Proposed Agricultural Policy’.
55. ‘Proposed Agricultural Policy for the Commonwealth’, 1944.
56. ‘Proposed Institute of Socialist Economy’, 1948. MS and typescript (signed).
57. ‘Proposed Peace Terms Association’, 1939. Typescript (signed).
58. Report on the Economic Development of the Indore State, 1925. Typescript.
59. ‘Rations in Great Britain’, 1917-20. Typescript.
60. Reviews of Books, 1933-34. Typescripts.
61. ‘Reality in Education’.
62. ‘Sir Thomas More and his Utopia’, with a letter from the Irish Press, 1935.
Typescript (signed).
63. ‘Sir Thomas More and the Incas’ with correspondence, 1935, and a letter from
H. S. Jevons to the editor of the Tribune, 1948, with a cutting of Jonathan Grant’s
article ‘From Incas to T. V. A.’; 16 Jan. 1948. MS and typescript.
64. ‘Social Equality’. Typescript.
65. ‘Social Forward Movement’, with drafts of two letters to the press on the
subject.
66. ‘The Socialist Ideal’. Typescript.
67. ‘The Summary of suggestions on Indian Constitutional Changes’.
68. ‘The Theory of a Planned Economy’. MS and typescript.
69. ‘A Third Garden City’. Typescript.
70. ‘Towards the Co-operative Commonwealth’. MS and typescript.
71. ‘Towards a Federal Union’. MS and typescript.
72. ‘Tower Silos’, 1948. Typescript (signed).
73. ‘Trade Unions and the Future’.
74. ‘USA and Oil Sanctions’. Typescript.
75. ‘Upper Burma - 1942’, notes for news-talk. Typescript.
76. ‘Victory by Mass Production’, 1942, with correspondence. Typescript (signed).
77. ‘What is Socialism?’
78. ‘What Next?’
IV.
Files of correspondence, articles and material with the following titles:79. Agricultural Development Co., 1917-23.
80. Agriculture in Central India, 1914-18.
80a. Agricultural Development in the Punjab, 1919-20.
80b. Alberta and New Zealand, 1937.
81. Apples and Orchard Society, 1933-34.
82. Bombay Cotton Industry, 1926.
83. Bombay Development, 1920-21.
84. Bombay Housing, 1923-30.
85. Bombing, 1940.
86. The British Heavy Steel Industry, 1931-2.
87. The British Llanio Circle, 1933.
88. The Building Industry, 1946-7.
89. Burma, 1927-8.
90. Burma Agricultural Society, 1929.
91. Burma (Lower) Agriculture, 1928.
92. Burma, Cinema, 1928.
93. Burma: a note on tuberculosis, cholera and other vital statistics, 1928.
94. Burma Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee, 1930.
95. Burma Rice Cess Committee, 1930.
96. Burma Institute for Rice, 1928.
97. Basil Butler Co. Ltd, Registered Practitioners in Advertising, 1933.
98. Cigarettes, 1933.
99. Cleaning Brush, application for patent.
100. Coal and Coal Mining.
Coal Trade, 1931, 1939-40
Collier’s Letters, 1910-11
National Coal Board, 1948-9
Miners’ year Book, 1914
National Union of Mineworkers, 1947-8
Policy for a National Organisation of the Coal Mining Industry, 1933
The Situation in the Coal Trade South Wales, Mining, 1909
101. The Co-operative Union Ltd, 1931-43.
102. The Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, 1933-34.
103. Conscientious Objectors’ Tribunals, 1941-2.
104. Cornish Mining Development Association, 1951-3.
105. Cotswold Bruderhof, 1937-8.
106. County War Agricultural Committees, 1941-2.
107. The Criterion of Justice.
108. ‘Daily Herald’ - articles on ‘Sir Thomas More’ and ‘Derelict Towns’, 1934-5.
109. Dawson, Lawrence, Burma, 1929-30.
110. Diplomatic Representation, Belgium, 1941-2.
111. Economic Development of Great Britain.
112. Engineers’ Economics Study Circle, 1934.
113. Engineers’ study group on Economics, 1936, and John L. Hodgson, 1933.
114. Everyman’s New Order, etc., 1942.
115. The Exchange Position, c. 1918.
116. The Fabian Society, 1933-38.
117. Federation.
118. Forward March, 1942-3.
119. Freedom, note for an article.
120. Gandhi, 1917 (an inquiry into the agrarian condition of the rayats of Champaran
by M. K. Gandhi).
121. Geddes, Patrick, 1918-30.
122. Hendry Bros Ltd, 1919-33.
123. Higginbottom, Sam, 1927-33.
124. Hints on Early Education.
125. Housing of Labour in the Jharia Coalfield, 1917-18.
126. Housing in Wales.
Land Enquiry Committee Correspondence, 1912-13
General Report on South Wales and Monmouthshire Urban Land and
Housing Condition, 1913-14
Special Report
Cardiff
Merthyr
Newport
Rhondda
Welsh Housing Association Correspondence, 1912
Urban Condition in Wales, Correspondence, 1912
127. Imperial Agricultural Association, 1925.
128. Incorporated Society of Authors, Play wrights and Composers, 1917-34.
129. India, 1935-47.
130. Indian Economic Enquiry Committee, 1925-26.
131. Indian Economics Professorships, 1914.
132. Indian Exchange and Currency, 1924-5.
133. Indian Fiscal Commission.
134. Indian Labour Conditions, 1925.
135. Indian Reforms, 1929.
136. India - Railway Connection with India, 1926.
137. Indian State Railways, 1928-29.
138. Indian Taxation Enquiry Committee, 1924-27.
139. Independent Labour Party, 1926-8.
140. Industrial Christian Fellowship, 1934-5.
141. Institute (proposed) of Industrial Economics, 1931.
142. Jones, D. Caradog, 1943-6.
143. King, P. S., and Son Ltd, 1912-34.
144. Knight and Co., 1938-54.
145. Lal, Ram Narain, 1924-27, Bookseller, Allahabad.
146. Lancashire Cotton, 1928.
147. Laundries, n.d.
148. London Co-operative Society Ltd, 1931-34.
149. McKechnie, Miss B. A., 1935-36.
150. Makonnen, Kebede, 1946-54.
151. Methuen and Co., 1932-42.
152. Memorandum on an improved system of charging income-tax on wage earnings
by piece-work, 1952.
153. Ministry of Food, 1942-44.
154. Ministry of Labour, 1941.
155. National Institute of Industrial Psychology, 1930-31.
156. National Planning, 1941.
157. National Theatre, 1948.
158. Notes for books.
159. Peace, 1935.
160. Pheonix Book Co. Ltd, 1938-39.
161. Production for the League, 1933.
162. Proposed society for Economic and Cultural relations with Germany, 1946-7.
163. Provincial and transferred subjects: Evidence of H. S. Jevons, 1918.
164. Punjab disturbances, 1919.
165. Rangoon Social Service League.
166. Rangoon University - memorandum on the Co-ordination of Industrial
Research, 1928.
167. Reclamation of Agricultural Lands, 1940-4.
168. Reparations and the Crisis, 1931.
169. Re-planning of London, 1930.
170. Retail distribution.
171. Rewah State, 1919-23.
172. Rhiwbina Garden Village, 1951-2 and Merthyr Co-operative Garden Village
Society, 1954.
173. Rice Export Duty, 1929.
174. The Rickshaw Problem, 1925-8.
175. Royal Commission on agriculture in India, 1927.
176. Royal Statistical Society, 1933-41.
177. Ruskin.
178. Safeguards for the Indian Constitution, 1931.
179. Save Europe Now, 1945-6.
180. Shoolbred’s Depositories Ltd, 1931-39.
181. Social Emancipation. Character and Morality.
182. Socialism, note for books, etc., 1933.
183. Society of Service, founded 1915.
184. Space Heating, 1951-4.
185. Mme Genevieve Tabouis, 1938-9.
186. Thomas, Dr John, 1934-54.
187. Trade Fluctuations, Statistics.
188. Unemployment.
189. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1912-34.
V.
Correspondence
190. Letters to H. S. Jevons, 1914-54. The correspondents include Philip NoelBaker, Lord Cecil, Sir Stafford Cripps, Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, Sir Frank
Kenyon, Sir Herbert Morrison, Gilbert Murray, Herbert Samuel and Sir John Simon.
191. Drafts and copies of letters, mostly typescript, from H. S. Jevons, 1913-54.
VI.
Abyssinia
A. 192. Correspondence with Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1937-53.
B. Articles, Reports, etc.
193. Abyssinia Association - suggested planning. Cyclostyled copy.
194. Abyssinia and Italy: information department papers, No. 16. Royal Institution
of International Affairs, July 1935. Cyclostyled copy.
195. Abyssinia Unconquered: published by the Union of Democratic Control.
Cyclostyled copy.
196. Addis Ababa: the planning of a Capital City, report by Sir Patrick Abercrombie,
1952. Typescript.
197. Address by Alan C. Don, Dean of Westminster, at Evensong, Saturday, 5 May
1951. Typescript.
198. Ballot about Abyssinia by H. Stanley Jevons, 1935.
199. British relations with Ethiopia, resumé of suggestion put forward by George A.
Nicholson, compiled by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith, 5 Oct. 1941. Typescript.
200. Calendar of a betrayal, 1933-38.
201. Civil administration of the Empire of Ethiopia. Typescript.
202. A compilation of the chief official statements made by His Majesty’s
Government at Home and at Geneva in connection with the Italo-Abyssinian dispute,
1935-39.
203. Confidential note on the state of Hospitalisation in Ethiopia in 1945.
Typescript.
204. An Emperor Restored by Herbert Stanley Jevons. Typescript (signed).
205. Ethiopia: a pivotal point in a changing world, by Theodora Heline. Cyclostyled
copy.
206. Ethiopia restored by H. Stanley Jevons, 1942. Typescript (signed).
207. Ethiopian Development Corporation, 1944, by H. Stanley Jevons. Typescript
(signed).
208. Ethiopia’s Development since the Emperor’s restoration in 1941; statement
supplementary to the Ethiopian Government’s Memorandum on the Financial
Development. Typescript.
209. Ethiopia’s protest to the League against Switzerland’s recognition of Italian
Sovereignty, 1937, signed by Haile Selassie I and O. S. Herouy. Typescript.
210. Ethiopian Territory in the British Occupation. The Reserved Area and the
Ogaden, by H. Stanley Jevons. Typescript.
211. General information for visitors to Ethiopia prepared by the Adviser to the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Typescript.
212. Imperial Highway Authority - its creation and work, 1954. Typescript.
213. Imperialistic Italy, by H. Stanley Jevons. Typescript.
214. Information concerning teaching posts at the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force
Training School. Cyclostyled copy.
215. The Italio-Ethiopian Question - opinion of Arnold D. McNair, 1936.
Typescript.
216. Journal of Dr Ladislas Saska, or the events in Abyssinia, before, during and
after the Italian Campaign. Typescript.
217. Justice for Abyssinia is the Key to World Peace, 1939. Typescript.
218. Memorandum on Ethiopia’s claim to the return of Eritrea and Somaliland.
Typescript.
219. Memorandum on the introduction of direct election to Parliament in Ethiopia,
by H. Stanley Jevons. Typescript.
220. Mineral resources of Abyssinia, 1946. Typescript.
221. The New Era in Ethiopia.
222. ‘Pacta Sunt Servanda’, by A. Berriedale Keith, University of Edinburgh, 1941.
Typescript.
223. The Peace Movement and the Abyssinian dispute, by H. Stanley Jevons.
Cyclostyled copy.
224. Peasants and Slavery in Abyssinia. Typescript.
225. The Proposed Administration of Eritrea by the Imperial Ethiopian Government.
Typescript.
226. Statement of Policy of the Abyssinia Association with regard to the future of
Eritrea and Somaliland, together with the revised statement of policy. Typescript.
227. Summary of a lecture given by Lieut.-Col. Athill, 19 March 1946. Typescript.
228. ‘The Tragedy of Ethiopia’, Tanganyika, 1937. Typescript.
C. Account Books
229. Ethiopian Fund, 1940-2.
230. Stamps, 1935-7.
231. Anglo-Ethiopian Society, 1953-5.
232. Legation, 1942-9.
D. Files containing material relating mainly to the Abyssinian Association
233-55. 1935-51.
E. 256. Material relating to the Anglo-Ethiopian Society, 1948-55.
F. Files of material relating to Abyssinia, with the following titles:257. Abyssinia - MS notes and articles by H. Stanley Jevons.
258. Abraham, Emanuel, 1940-42.
259. Book of Remembrance, 1942-3.
260. Brierly, J. L., Oxford, 1937-42.
261. Collier, C. S., London, 1935-8.
262. Correspondence relating to the Ethiopian Loan, 1935-6.
263. Correspondence: Italy and Abyssinia, 1935.
264. Delegation to the League of Nations, 1937.
265. Dent and Co. - correspondence relating to Christine Sandford’s book Ethiopia
under Haile Selassie, 1942-6.
266. Ethiopia and Italy. Jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice
under the General Act of Geneva and the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928. Opinion of
Prof. A. D. McNair, 1937.
267. Ethiopia: Emperor’s Appeal Fund, 1938.
268. Ethiopian Royal Family, 1941-2.
269. Eden, Anthony, 1940-42.
270. Fabela, Isadro, Mexico City, 1938.
271. Herouy, Sirak, Bath, 1937-9.
272. Hussey, E. R. J., 1952.
273. Imperial Ethiopian Embassy, 1950-54.
274. Italian War Crimes in Abyssinia, 1937-8.
275. Jevons, H. Stanley. Letters for publication, 1937-41.
276. Jordon, W. J. and Koo, Dr Wellington, 1938.
277. Lauterpracht, Prof. H., 1937.
278. League of Nations and Ethiopia, 1938, including a note on policy for the
League Assembly in Sept. by H. Stanley Jevons.
279. Lugard, Lord, 1936.
280. Martin, Dr A. W., 1941.
281. McNair, Prof. A. D., 1936-42.
282. MacKerath, Col. G., 1941-2.
283. Maisky, I. M., 1938.
284. Mander, Geoffrey Le, 1941.
285. The News Chronicle and the Abyssinian Refugee Fund, 1939-40.
286. Noel Buxton, Rt Hon. Lord, 1942.
287. Perham, Margery, 1947-9, including a typescript copy of ‘Civil Administration
of the Empire of Ethiopia’ by H. Stanley Jevons.
288. Pethick-Lawrence, F. W., 1942.
289. Rolin, Henri, Brussels, 1937-9.
290. Report on Motor Transport, 1944-5.
291. Personal adviser to the Emperor, 1941.
292. Slavery, articles on.
293. Taezaz, L., 1938-9.
294. Emperor of Ethiopia v. Cables and Wireless Ltd.
295-6. Foreign Office Correspondence, 1936-8. [Apparently incorporated in No.
298.]
297. Refugees, 1936-39.
298. Foreign Office, 1936-8.
VII. Jevons, H. Stanley.
Miscellanea
299. Geological Field Note-book, 1895-99.
300-2. Lett’s Indian and Colonial Scribbling Diary, 1915, 1919 and 1922, with
entries by H. S. Jevons.
303-8. Lectures by H. S. Jevons:-
303. The Co-operative Movement and its Economic Problems. I-IX.
304. Economics Lectures I-XIV; XV-XXV; LI-LVI.
305. Political Science: Economics Lectures I-VIII.
306. Political Science Lectures.
307. B. D. Lecture Notes, 1925.
308. Economic notes on Hong Kong and Japan, 1905.
309-13. Notebooks containing miscellaneous notes, 1899-1936.
314. Rangoon University, etc. College Examination Papers, 1926-30.
Cyclostyled copies.
315. Testimonials given by H. S. Jevons, 1928-34.
316. Rangoon University College Salary Bills as lecturer in Economics, etc.,
May 1928.
317. Rangoon, etc. Income Tax Papers, etc., 1922-30.
318. Reviews and notices of Essays on Economics by H. S. Jevons, MA,
BSc, London, 1906.
319. Jevons, Harriet Ann (Mrs). Will Trust: Statement of Account as at 31
March 1913; income account for year to 1 Aug. 1933.
320. Agreement for letting Flat No. 11 in Russell Square Mansions to H. S.
Jevons, 15 June 1931.
321-3. Cash books, 1930-40.
324. Miscellanea.
VIII. Miscellaneous typescripts, etc.
325. “The Theory of Normative Economics”, a thesis for the degree of Dr of letters
of the University of Allahabad by Ratish Mohan.
(Rejected.)
326. Lectures on the origin and Development of Commerce by R. Clive Teece, MA;
notes by J. Garlick, 1904.
327. Report on the Malaria Problem at Kyaukpyu, by the assistant Director, Public
Health, Burma, 1927.
328. Some observations upon a ‘Hundred New Towns for Britain’, 1st edition by H.
C. Mason.
329. The Course of Exchange between London and Paris before the Revolution.
330. ‘Politics in Palestine’, by F. W. Pethwick-Laurence.
331. ‘The Political Economy of Marginal Farming’, by G. R. Allen.
332. ‘Hiroshima’, a letter to the Times by Vera Brittain, 1947.
333. ‘Visit the beautiful ruins of Germany’ - extract from the Yank, the Army
Weekly, 6 Feb. 1944.
334. Miscellanea.
335. Press-cuttings, c. 1907-48.
XI-XII. Printed books, pamphlets and periodicals containing articles by H. S. Jevons.
XII. Printed matter relating to Abyssinia.
XIV. General Printed Matter.
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