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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.

Box and Folder Listing

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[Box 2],
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Box 2

Item 4019: Letter from John Stuart Mill, Bagneres de Luchon, France, to G. W. Hastings, 1860 June 18: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.
Item 4020: Letter from John Stuart Mill, Blackheath Park, London, to Edwin Arnold, 1865 July 6: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Acknowledges and thanks defenders of Mill's writings.
Item 4021: Letter from John Stuart Mill, Blackheath Park, London, to Robert Herbert Story, 1867 February 9: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Acknowledges the receipt of a book.
Item 4022: Letter from John Stuart Mill to an unidentified recipient, undated: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Discusses a work's preface and table of contents.
Item 4023: Letter from John Stuart Mill to an unidentified recipient, undated: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Requests that the recipient send some papers.
Item 4024: Monograph by John Stuart Mill, undated: 1 item (230 pages): manuscript. English. A manuscript copy of Mill's autobiography, including the author's insertions and additional notes in another hand.
Item 4025: Letter from Thomas Chalmers to an unidentified recipient, 1841 August 13: 1 item (10 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a paper that Chalmers had previously sent.
Item 4026: Letter from William Whewell, London, to J. W. Parker, 1856 October 5: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a paper.
Item 4027: Letter from Samuel Jones-Loyd, Overstone Park, Northamptonshire, England, to John Murray, 1861 January 25: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a trip to London.
Item 4028: Letter from Labert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels, to Robert Chambers, 1840 November 4: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. French. Discusses Robert Knox's English tranlation of Quetelet's Sur l'homme et le developpement de ses faculte.
Item 4029: Letter from Michel Chevalier, Paris, to S. B. Ruggles, 1847 November 30: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. French. Discusses a letter from Mr. John W. Elwings.
Item 4030: Letter from Francis D. Longe, Ipswich, England, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1907 October 5: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Mentions misplaced reprints of Longe's essay "Refutation of the Wage Fund Theory."
Item 4031: Scrapbook compiled by Francis D. Longe, Baltimore, 1866-1904: 1 item (19 pages): manuscript. English. Contains letters and notes regarding the wage-fund theory.
Item 4032: Letter from Alexander W. Stryker, Philadelphia, to Prof. R. M. Johnston, 1867 December 31: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Discusses Stryker's illness.
Item 4033: Letter from Amasa Walker, North Brookfield, Massachusetts, to William Mathews, 1867 November 27: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Offers to send Mathews The Science of Wealth and enquires about the presence of political economy at the University of Chicago
Item 4034: Letter from William Stanley Jevons, Northwick, England?, to Samuel? Haughton, 1873 April 11: 2 items (4 pages): manuscript. English. Encloses a newspaper article entitled "Death of Professor Jevons." Discusses Haughton's work on animal mechanics.
Item 4035: Letter from Millicent G. Fawcett, London, to Mr. Roberts, undated: 1 item (4 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses L. D. Roberts and social engagements.
Item 4036: Letter from James E. Thorold Rogers, Oxford, to an unidentified recipient, 1867 September 25: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses Adam Smith.
Item 4037: Letter from Francis A. Walker , Boston, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1895 February 13: 1 item (1 page): typescript. English. Discusses the concept of marginal rent.
Item 4038: Autograph Card from Simon Newcomb to Prof. Edgeworth, undated: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Introduces Edgeworth.
Item 4039: Letter from Sidney Sherwood, Baltimore, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1901 April 30: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses the state of affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
Item 4040: Letter from Elisha Benjamin Andrews, Providence, Rhode Island, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1895 May 23: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses people whom Hollander could meet in London.
Item 4041: Letter from Worthington C. Ford, Boston, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1899 May 11: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses David Ricardo letters.
Item 4041*: Letter from Horace Wite, Baltimore, to Gov. E. Boswell, 1902 May 21: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses Boswell's essay on state banking.
Item 4042: Letter from Achille Loria, Turin, Italy, to G. E. Schiavo, 1921 October 8: 2 items (6 pages): manuscript. Italian. Includes an envelope addressed to Giovanni E. Schiavo of New York City, postmarked in Torino, Italy, 1921. Discusses a bill.
Item 4043: Letter from Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, New York, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1904 January 9: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses the identity of an anonymous author.
Item 4044: Letter from John B. Clark, Amherst, Massachusetts?, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1895 May 27: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a letter to Dr. Edgewater.
Item 4045: Letter from Frank William Taussig, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1912 October 19: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Discusses a social dinner outing.
Item 4046: Letter from Simon N. Patten, Philadelphia, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1895 May 25: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Discusses an enclosed letter (not present).
Item 4047: Letter from Carl Menger, Vienna, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1913 June 21: 1 item (4 pages): manuscript. German. Discusses Dudley North.
Item 4048: Letter from Robert Zuckerkandi, Prague, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1905 June 27: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Discusses Barbon's A Discourse of Trade.
Item 4049: Letter from Daniel Bellet, Maisons-Lafitte, France, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1912 May 11: 1 item (1 page): typescript. French. Discusses nominations for a medal from the Societe d'Economie Politique.
Item 4050: Postcard from Auguste Oncken, Bern, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1903 May 5: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. French. Discusses David Ricardo.
Item 4051: Postcard from Luigi Cossa, Pavia, Italy, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1895 November 11: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Requests a book.
Item 4052: Letter from Leslie Stephen, London, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1899 July 9: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Mentions Stephen's work on a book.
Item 4053: Letter from Alfred Marshall, Cambridge, England, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1915 May 22: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Mentions Marshall's inability to read all of the books that he wishes to.
Item 4054: Letter from John Rae, Wick, Scotland, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1895 August 22: 1 item (4 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses the acquisition of letters.
Item 4055: Letter from Bernard Mallet, London, to Henry Higgs, 1910 January 31: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a pamphlet.
Item 4056: Letter from E. C. K. Gonner, West Kirby, England, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1911 October 15: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses Hollander's proposed work about David Ricardo.
Item 4057: Letter from W. R. Scott, Glasgow, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1918 July 25: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses the essay "Economic Problems of Peace after War."
Item 4058: Letter from Herbert Somerton Foxwell, Cambridge, England, to Henry Higgs, 1910 February 16: 1 item (4 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses copies of the Adam Smith centenary dinner tract.
Item 4059: Letter from Charles Francis Bastable, Dublin, to Johns Hopkins Press, 1908 February 9: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses payment for 18th-century tracts.
Item 4060: Letter from A. Andreades, Athens, Greece?, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1920 January 17: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses an essay written by Hollander.
Item 4061: Letter from William Cunningham, Cambridge, England, to an unidentified recipient, 1899 December: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. A holiday greeting card.
Item 4062: Letter from M. Epstein, London, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1911 October 17: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses the Sephordi Corporation archives.
Item 4063: Letter from Sidney Webb, London, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1906 May 14: 1 item (3 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses American trade unionism.
Item 4064: Letter from Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Oxford, England, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1903 February 4: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a prospectus.
Item 4065: Letter from Henry Higgs, Whitehall, London, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1904 August 3: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Discusses a national report.
Item 4066: Letter from James Mavor, Toronto, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1903 December 9: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Acknowledges receipt of Hollander's letter.
Item 4067: Letter from C. J. Hamilton, Cardiff, Wales, to Jacob H. Hollander, undated: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. A letter of introduction.
Item 4068: Letter from Edwin Cannan, Oxford, England, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1934 January 4: 1 item (1 page): typescript. English. Discusses an error in an unidentified work.
Item 4069: Letter from James Bonar, London, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1935 December 28: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. English. Requests permission to use Hollander's work.
Item 4070: Letter from Georges Weulersse, Paris, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1912 May 29: 1 item (1 page): manuscript. French. Discusses Le Mouvement Physiocratique.
Item 4071: Letter from William A. Shaw, London, to Jacob H. Hollander, 1936 November 11: 1 item (2 pages): manuscript. English. Discusses a speech given in 1811.

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