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| Title: | Mayo-Smith, Richmond. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1875-1897 |
| Size: | .25 linear ft (1 box) |
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Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Richmond Mayo-Smith, 1854-1901, was a professor of political economy at Columbia University, and author of Emigration and Immigration, 1890; Statistics and Sociology, 1895; and Statistics and Economics, 1899. The collection, mainly transcripts, includes general correspondence, letters to his parents and wife, miscellaneous personal documents, newspaper reviews, obituaries and letters of condolence to Mrs. Mayo-Smith. |
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Richmond Mayo-Smith, 1854-1901, was a professor of political economy at Columbia University, and author of Emigration and Immigration, 1890; Statistics and Sociology, 1895; and Statistics and Economics, 1899.
The collection, mainly transcripts, includes general correspondence, letters to his parents and wife, miscellaneous personal documents, newspaper reviews, obituaries and letters of condolence to Mrs. Mayo-Smith. It contains documents concerning Mayo-Smith's education in Berlin and Heidelberg, and his appointment as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia College in 1878. His activities in the American Statistical Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the International Statistical Institute, the Royal Statistical Society, and the American Economic Association are touched on in letters from Francis Walker, Jozsef Körösi, Luigi Bodio, Richard T. Ely and others. Since Smith was a member of the original board of the Political Science Quarterly, the correspondence includes replies to his solicitations of articles from contemporary social scientists and writers such as Charles H. Cooley, Carroll D. Wright, and Horace White.
Among Smith's other correspondents are: Seth Low, President of Columbia University 1890-91 and a mayor of New York; Vilfredo Pareto, author of The Mind and Society; Heinrich Braun, German Social Democrat writer and politician; and Munro Smith, brother to Mayo-Smith, and author and professor at Columbia and Georgetown Law School.
| Box 1 Folder 1 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 2 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 3 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 4 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 5 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 6 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 7 | General Correspondence
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| Box 1 Folder 8 | Letters of Mayo-Smith to His Family
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| Box 1 Folder 9 | Personal Documents
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| Box 1 Folder 10 | Press Notices and Reviews |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Obituaries |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Letters to Mrs. Mayo-Smith
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