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Collection Overview

Title: Jacob H. Hollander collection manuscripts, 1660-1936

ID: 01/01/MSS00024

Primary Creator: Hollander, Jacob H. (1871-1940)

Extent: 0.75 Linear Feet

Arrangement: Each item is assigned a number based on Hollander's own arrangement of his collection. The manuscripts comprise Hollander numbers 3923-4071.

Languages: English, French, German

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains 155 manuscripts from the Jacob H. Hollander collection. The manuscripts are predominantly letters discussing 18th- and 19th-century theories of political economics in Europe. Other topics of correspondence include the publication of economic monographs, discussions about social engagements, and letters of introduction. Several of the later letters in Box 2 also refer directly to the Hollander collection. Notable correspondents include Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Robert Malthus, Jean Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. Also present are two scrapbooks, a manuscript draft of John Stuart Mill's autobiography, and official reports and certificates.

Collection Historical Note

Jacob Harry Hollander (July 23, 1871 - July 9, 1940) was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Meyer and Rosa (Meyer) Hollander. After attending local public and private schools as well as spending one year at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, Hollander graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1891. He received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1894, when he joined the faculty, and he became a full professor in 1904. As a professor of political economy, Hollander focused on the life and works of the English economist David Ricardo.

Throughout his career, Hollander accepted a variety of governmental assignments, and the first of which was an appointment by President William McKinley to the Bimetallic Commission in 1897. In 1900, he was appointed Treasurer of Puerto Rico and implemented the Hollander Tax. Hollander resigned the position in August 1901, and the Department of the Interior sent him to Native American territory in Oklahoma in 1904 as a special agent. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Hollander as a financial advisor to the Dominican Republic from ca. 1905-1910. Hollander would support Roosevelt in his presidential campaign in 1912, and he was an advocate of Prohibition and, following World War I, a pacifist. He died in 1940.

Administrative Information

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions:

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This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would damage materials or involve violation of copyright law.

Acquisition Method: Purchase, 1958.

Related Publications: Marsh, Elsie A. G. The Economic Library of Jacob H. Hollander. Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1937. Available online.

Other Note: The collection is housed in the Hollander quarto and folio sections.

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Item 3960*: Letter from Thomas Robert Malthus to J. Houghton, Esq., c/o Messrs Cox & Baylis, February 10th, 1825.: 1 item (1 leaf): manuscript. English. Requests that Houghton write a letter on behalf of Sir James Mackintosh regarding "oriental manuscripts" to be sold to the British Museum and that he call upon Sir James Armerrow(?).

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