Manton Marble Collection
The Collection
Subject: economics, politics
The collection comprises approximately 1,000 pamphlets, 53 scrapbooks and press cuttings, ca 1844 – ca 1911, in 190 boxes, on American politics, foreign relations and economic matters. There is a particularly strong emphasis on the bi-metallist currency controversy of the latter part of the nineteenth century. Also included is material on United States politicians (including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, W. J. Bryan, William McKinley, John Sherman, Samuel J. Tilden, A.S. Hewitt, D. B. Hill, A. B. Parker, C (Carl?) Schurz), taxation, tariffs, the press, labour issues, and the navy. Also includes personalia of Manton Marble.
The material was assembled by (1834-1917), an American journalist who in 1885 was appointed special envoy to the governments of Great Britain, France and Germany to explore the possibility of adopting international bi-metallism. Personalia is present in the collection. The collection was transferred to Senate House Library from the Institute of Historical Research in 1937.
Access
The collection is held in the archives at MS1163. PDF files in box order are listed on the (boxes 102-187 searchable). A hard-copy list of the pamphlets available in Special Collections. The collection is held off-site and material requires 48 hours (excluding weekends) to be fetched.
Related material
Further reading
George T. McJimsey, Genteel Partisan: Manton Marble, 1834-1917 (Iowa State University Press, 1971).
