IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1060 DP003 Price
Held at: Royal Statistical Society
Title: Price papers
Date(s): [1947]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 files
Name of creator(s): Price | Langford Lovell | 1862-1950 | economic historian x Price | L L
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Langford Price, born 1862; educated at Oxford Universty; Lecturer for the Toynbee Trust in Newcastle and Cornwall; Lecturer (1908) and Reader (1921) in Economic History, Oxford University; Fellow, 1887-1950, and member of Council, of Royal Statistical Society; Hon. Secretary of Economic Society from beginning in 1890; Secretary, Economic Science and Statistics Section, British Association; Member of International Statistical Institute.
Publications: A Short Historyof Political Economy in England, 15 editions, 1891-1937; Money and its Relation to Prices, 3 editions, 1896-1929.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Langford Price papers, [1947]: 'Part II: Memories and Notes on British Economists, 1881-1947' apparently unpublished: typescript draft, with numerous manuscript alterations and corrections, and clean typescript of Price's recollections of British economists and statisticians prefaced with a brief autobiographical account. The text comprises 4 chapters: Introduction; Cambridge; Economists; Oxford Economists and Others; Statisticians and Conclusion.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As indicated in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Access to annotated typescript may be closed because of fragile condition.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Archives Consultant and subject to copyright.
Finding aids:
Summary list.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
No information has yet been found about the deposit of these papers with the Society.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Janet Foster, Archives Consultant, RSS.
Date(s) of descriptions: October, 2008