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Finance, 1937-1960

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Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 690
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Contains:

  1. folder 1 (fols. 1-19) material sent by Sir Arthur Dawe from the Colonial Office to Margery Perham on colonial financial organisation, including circular despatches and a memorandum on expenditure and revenue during 1938 of six colonial governments by Ormsby-Gore, with a covering letter, 1937-1938
  2. folder 2 (unfoliated) Colonial finance and Parliamentary control, press cuttings, 1939-1953
  3. folder 3 (fols. 1-14) correspondence with the National Institute of Social Economic Research about colonial finance, 1941
  4. folder 4 (fols. 1-40) notes by Margery Perham on colonial finance, relations with the Colonial Office, Bourdillon, and financial control (fols. 1-2); notes by Arthur Hazlewood on 'Death of a Red Herring', West Africa, Jan 1954 (fols. 3-8); and a memorandum on the 'Sterling Assets of the British Colonies', issued by the Colonial Office and 'The Relations of Associated Overseas Countries and Colonies to the European Economy' by S. Herbert Frankel, 1959 (fols. 10-40), 1950-1959
  5. folder 5 (unfoliated) Colonial finance, press cuttings, 1943-1960.

Dates

  • Creation: 1937-1960

Extent

5 items

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Perham 690

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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