Papers of David McCord Wright [manuscript], 1820-1953.

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Papers of David McCord Wright [manuscript], 1820-1953.

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Correspondence, 1938-1953, of David McCord Wright, including letters from Charles C. Abbott, Willard E. Atkins, D.H. Robertson, Wesley C. Mitchell, George Terborgh, Eugenio Gudin, Charles E. Lindblom, Edward H. Chamberlain, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Eli Shapiro. Correspondence, 1938-1942, from the University of Virginia, including letters from E.I. Carruthers, Tipton R. Snavely, Elbert A. Kincaid, J.L. Newcomb. Personal correspondence, 1939-1952, including letters from A.E. Buckingham, Howard Nicholson, John Gange, Charles J. Kersten, James G. Campaigne, Joseph W. Sharp, and others. Copies of Wright's letters, 1949-1953, including letters to Arthur Smities, Frederick E. Nolting, Murat Williams, Emerson Schmidt, T. Coleman Andrews, Charles C. Abbott, M.B. Swayze, Harry F. Byrd, Lewis H. Haney, Labor and Nation; memo from Victor M. Longstreet to Alvin Hansen, 1941 July 2, regarding manuscript of Wright's. Correspondence of Anton P. Wright, 1928-1947, including letters to Eugene R. Black, Walter F. George, Harry J. Haas, and a memorial to Edward Chase Brennan. There is also material regarding the formation of the University of Virginia Graduate School of Business Administration, 1950-1953, and material regarding the Economics Department of the University of Virginia, and annual reports, 1935-1941, of the James Wilson School of Economics. Notes and class outlines from Wright's graduate studies, including 17 notebooks. Manuscript of Physical versus financial measures of capital consumption, with letter from A.E. Monroe, 1939 June 26. Manuscript and research notes for Langdon Cheves, including letters from James O. Wettereau, Walter B. Smith, and copies of correspondence of Jonathan Roberts, Robert Gilmor, Henry Clay, John Tayloe, Nicholas Biddle and Langdon Cheves; list of economics library of Langdon Cheves. Manuscripts by David McCord Wright, including "A pair of scissors," "Adventure and review," "What sort of man was Shakespeare," "UNESCO report on education in the social sciences and law in the United States," "Langdon Cheves and Nicholas Biddle," "The prospects for capitalism," etc. Reprints and manuscripts of articles by Y. Brozen, Donald Dewey, Seymour E. Harris, Jørgen Pedersen, Alvin H. Hansen, R.F. Harrod, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Gottfried Haberer, Jacob Viner and others. Group photographs of: Upsilon Chapter of Delta Psi, 1931-1935, and Minor Chapter of Phi Delta Phi, 1934-1935.

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