Loveday - Nuffield College

Papers of A. Loveday in Nuffield College Library 

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These papers are open to 

bona fide researchers on 

application in writing to 

the Librarian, Nuffield 

College, Oxford OX1 1NF.


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A handlist of the 

papers of A. Loveday, 

1888 - 1962 

in the Library of Nuffield College, Oxford 

2004


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Contents 

Chronology 6 

Box 1 Family photographs 7 

Box 2 Family photo albums 7 

Box 3 Photograph album and sport book 7 

Box 4 Family photograph album 7 

Box 5 Artwork, lecture lists and photographs 7 

Box 6 

Box 7 

Documents on academic matters and international 

organisations 

Articles, photographs and documents relating to Nuffield 

College (SOME CLOSED) 

Roll 1 Oxford University Almanacs 1950 - 1951 9 

Roll 2 Oxford University Almanacs 1950, 1952 – 1954, 1957 9 

Roll 3 Loveday’s DLitt certificate from McGill University, 26 May 

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1943 

Roll 4 2 copies of a letter inviting Loveday to become an honorary 

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member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, 27 April 

1932 

Box 8 Suitcase of miscellaneous family photographs 9 

Box 9 Sketches of Loveday 9 

Box 10 Letters, photographs and mementos 9 

Box 11 Obituaries for Loveday, correspondence about grants and a 

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picture card (SOME CLOSED) 

Roll 5 Certificates granted to Loveday’s wife, c.1911 9 

Box 12 Letters, postcards and photographs 10 

Box 13 Correspondence 1940 & 1957 – 1961 (CLOSED) 10 

Box 14 Card file of addresses 10 

Box 15 Card index of UN & ILO references 10 

Box 16 Selection of diaries for 1908 – 1922 10 

Box 17 Diaries for 1924 – 1929 11 


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Box 21 Diaries for 1942 – 1948 (MISSING) 11 



Box 24 Diaries for 1961 & 1962 (CLOSED), early diaries, minutes 

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and account book 

Box 25 Publications 12 

Box 26 Articles by Loveday, 1928 – 1958 12 

Box 27 Miscellaneous photographs and newspaper articles 13 

Box 28 Miscellaneous photographs, invitations, programmes and 

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tickets 

Box 29 Miscellaneous official photographs, watercolours and 

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invitations 

Box 30 Reviews of Loveday’s book ‘Reflections..’, miscellaneous 

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photographs, account book, notebook on world commodity 

production and currency 

Box 31 Reviews of, and various correspondence about, Loveday’s 

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publications, poem to his children and detailed chronology 

Box 32 Marriage, birth and death certificates for Loveday family and 

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photographs 

Box 33 Picture postcards, photographs, reviews of and 

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correspondence about ‘The only way’ and American banking 

material 

Box 34 Loveday and Nathalie Loveday’s passports, address books 

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and testimonials 

Box 35 Invitations, membership cards and newspaper cuttings 16 

Box 36 File containing various notes and comments on the economic 

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situation in Europe c.1939 and correspondence 1938 - 1940 

Box 37 File containing correspondence, 1930 - 1940 17 

Box 38 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1925 17 

Box 39 File containing correspondence, 1936 17 

Box 40 

Box 41 

Correspondence regarding Loveday’s article ‘Suggestions for 

the reform of the UN economic and social machine’, 1953 – 

1954 and file containing material on economic and industrial 

situation in Europe after World War One 

Paperwork regarding League of Nations work and 

miscellaneous personal items 

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Box 42 Paperwork regarding League of Nations’ Financial Section 

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and Economic Committee’s work 

Box 43 Box file containing personal correspondence prior to 1930 19 

Box 44 Personal correspondence, 1930 – 1940 (CLOSED) 19 

Box 45 ‘Letter book’ containing League of Nations correspondence 

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for 1940 

Box 46 Box file containing personal correspondence, 1941 – 1957 

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(CLOSED) 

Box 47 Box file containing papers relating to the education of 

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Loveday’s sons 

Box 48 Box file marked letter book Warden personal 1949 – 1950 

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(CLOSED) 

Box 49 Box file marked letter book Warden personal 1950 – 1953 

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(CLOSED) 

Box 50 League of Nations correspondence and papers, 1927 – 1938 20 

Box 51 Box file marked strictly private; correspondence 1931 – 1935 

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(CLOSED) 

Box 52 Box file marked staff; containing notes and papers relating to 

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staffing and budget issues at the League of Nations before 

and during the Second World War, 1939 – 1940 

Box 53 Documents relating to the International Chamber of 

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Commerce’s work in Europe in the 1950s, papers from the 

11th meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society and various 

economic lectures and talks 

Box 54 Papers relating to the Mont Pelerin Society (1957 – 1960), 

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the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement’s 

Political and Economic Conference of the Seven (1960) and 

various correspondence (1919 – 1920) (SOME CLOSED) 

Box 55 Correspondence, July 1919 – Dec 1920 24 

Box 56 

Correspondence, 1920 & 1946 – 1950, and miscellaneous 

articles and notes (SOME CLOSED) 

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Chronology 

1888 Born 

Education 

Shrewsbury School 

Peterhouse, Cambridge University 

Fellow at the International Statistical Society 

1911 – 1912 Lecturer in political philosophy at Leipzig University 

1913 – 1915 Lecturer in economics at Cambridge University 

1914 *History and Economics of Indian Famines 

1915 – 1919 War Office 

1916 Married to Nathalie Irena 

1919 League of Nations Secretariat 

1931 Britain and World Trade, Quo Vadimus and other essays 

1931 – 1939 Director of the Financial Section and Economic Intelligence Service 

1933 Contributor to Economic Essays in honour of Gustav Cassel 

1937 Contributor to The Lessons of Monetary Experience 

1938 Contributor to The World's Future 

1939 – 1946 Director of the Economic, Financial and Transit Department 

1946 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 

Member of the UN Nuclear Economic and Employment Commission 

1946 – 1949 Fellow of Nuffield College 

1950 The Only Way; A Study of Democracy in Danger 

1950 – 1954 Warden of Nuffield College 

1957 Reflections on International Administration 

1962 Jan 19 Died 

*Publications are in italics


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Box 1: Family photographs 

1/1 Photograph album of T.T. Loveday as a baby 

1/2-3 Family photographs 

1/4-5 Christmas cards from Loveday’s family 

1/6 Miscellaneous photographs of Loveday’s grandchildren 

Box 2: Family photograph albums 

2/1 Album of photographs taken by Miss L. Loveday from March to June 1924 

2/2 Family photographs, c.1950s 

Box 3: Photograph album and sport book 

3/1 Photograph album from early 1900s 

3/2 Leipziger Sport Club Book, 1901 to 30 April 1926 

Box 4: Family photograph album 

4/1 Family photograph album 

Box 5: Artwork, lecture lists and photographs 

5/1 Yearbook of Japanese art, 1930 – 1931 

5/2 Sketch book containing water colours 

5/3 Cambridge University Reporter, no.1972 (Michaelmas Term 1913), 

Wednesday 8 th October 1913. List of lectures for 1913 – 1914 proposed by 

the Special Board of Studies. 

5/4 Cambridge University Reporter, no. 1998 (Easter Term 1914), Wednesday 

22 nd April 1914. List of lectures for 1913 – 1914 proposed by the Special 

Board of Studies.


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5/5 File containing water colours, mainly mountainous 

5/6 File containing miscellaneous family photographs 

5/7 Two proof photographs of Mrs A. Loveday 

5/8 File containing water colours, mainly mountainous 

Box 6: Documents on academic matters and international organisations 

6/1 “Note on FAO” and several letters to and from M. Veillet- 

Lavallee 

1953 Oct – Nov 

6/2 U.N.E.S.C.O. file. Visit to Paris, notes and letters 1953 

6/3 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; letters 1946 & 1951 – 1952 

6/4 Documents on first weekend party at Bad Rothenfelde/House 

Hartmann on industry and education 

6/5 Papers on and from the second weekend meeting at Bad 

Rothenfelde, on social science 

1949 Apr 2 - 3 

1949 Jul 

6/6 Copies of articles, reviews etc written by Loveday 

6/7 Correspondence with Central Office of Information; material 

on the Western Union 

1948 Nov – 1949 Jan 

Box 7: Articles, photographs and documents relating to Nuffield College 

7/1 Articles and speeches, and letters regarding previous 1947 

7/2 Letters regarding the committee on the appointment of a new 

warden at Nuffield College (CLOSED) 

7/3 File of correspondence relating to Nuffield College and notes 

on proposals for interviews for U.S. academics to come to 

Nuffield College (CLOSED) 

7/4 File containing documents, letters and estimates for building at 

Nuffield College (CLOSED) 

1949 Feb 3 – 9 

1952 – 1954 

1951 – 1954 

7/5 Envelope of family photographs


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Roll 1: Oxford University Almanacs 1950 - 1951 

Roll 2: Oxford University Almanacs 1950, 1952 – 1954, and 1957 

Roll 3: Loveday’s DLitt certificate from McGill University, 26 May 1943 

Roll 4: 2 copies of a letter inviting Loveday to become an honorary member of the Swedish 

Royal Academy of Science, 27 April 1932 

Box 8: Suitcase of invitations and miscellaneous family photographs 

Box 9: Sketches of Loveday, 1957 

Box 10: Letters, photographs and mementos 

10/1 Silver Villars Sport cup 

10/2 Leather wallet containing old black and white photographs and initialled E.J.L. 

10/3 Cardboard A-Z wallet containing miscellaneous correspondence, mainly 1912 - 

1917 

10/4 Arms of McGill University 

10/5 Loveday’s common place book, 1933 

Box 11: Obituaries for Loveday, correspondence about grants and a picture card 

11/1 Obituaries for Loveday in The Times, The Observer, The Sunday Times, 

Oxford Mail, Daily Telegraph and Oxford Times and notice of memorial 

service in The Times 

11/2 Correspondence regarding an application from Nuffield College to the 

Rockerfeller Foundation for a grant to facilitate its work in African studies and 

correspondence regarding Mr Facnacht’s work on Acton and a request to the 

National Institute of Economic & Social Research for an extension of his grant 

(CLOSED) 

11/3 Picture card sent to Miss A. Loveday from A. Francis Stewart 

Roll 5: Certificates granted to Loveday’s wife, c.1911


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Box 12: Letters, postcards and photographs 

12/1 Correspondence to Loveday, Mrs Loveday and Thomas Loveday, and from 

Tom and Alexander Dominic Loveday (both on active service) 1943 – 1945. 

Papers regarding university education of sons 

Box 13: Correspondence 1940 & 1957 – 1961 

13/1 Collection of letters, postcards and photographs (CLOSED) 

Box 14: Card file of addresses 

14/1 Card file of addresses, and address book containing list of book on India 

Box 15: Card index of UN and ILO references 

15/1 Card index containing references, mainly to UN and ILO No obvious 

connection to Loveday’s publication “Reflections on international 

administration” 

Box 16: Selection of diaries for 1908 - 1922 

16/1 Diary for 1908 




16/5 Diary for Oct 1921 – Jan 1922 

16/6 Dairy for Genoa 1922 

16/7 Notes on Summer holiday 1922


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Box 17: Diaries for 1924 - 1929 

17/1-17/7 Diaries for 1924 - 1929 


18/1-18/6 Diaries for 1930 - 1932 


19/1-19/5 Diaries for 1933 - 1937 


20/1-20/5 Diaries for 1938 - 1941 


21/1-21/6 Diaries for 1942 – 1948 (MISSING) 


22/1-22/6 Diaries for 1949 - 1953 


23/1- 23/7 Diaries for 1954 - 1960 

Box 24: Diaries for 1961 & 1962, early diaries, minutes and account book 

24/1 Diary for 1961 (CLOSED) 

24/2 Diary for 1962 (CLOSED)


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24/3 Notebook on early diaries and collection of minerals 

24/4 Minutes of the X Society from Oct 1907 to Oct 1909 

24/5 Account book containing investment income 1959 - 1961 

Box 25: Publications 

25/1 14 Memorabilia published by the Medici Society 

25/2 “Three stories from Blackwood” by J.E.T. Loveday (found in Loveday’s diary 

for 1928) 

25/3 “Trout of the Thames” by A. Edward Hobbs. Note inside by Tom Loveday, 

Jan 1962, saying that this was the last hardback book his father was able to lift 

and read with interest 

25/4 “The only way: a study of democracy in danger” by Loveday, given to 

Nathalie by Loveday 

Box 26: Articles by Loveday, 1928 - 1958 

26/1 “The international shipping crisis”, Weltwirtschafliches Archiv, v.28, no.2, 

October 1928 (x 3) 

26/2 “Quo vadimus?”, Index, v.5, no.49, January 1930 (x 5) 

26/3 Loveday’s review of “The Australian Tariff” in “Notes and news”, 1931 (x 4) 

26/4 Front pages of “Britain and world trade”, 1931 (x 8) 

26/5 “The League of Nations and the work of refugee settlement and financial 

reconstruction in Greece, 1922-1930” by Martin Hill in Weltwirtschafliches 

Archiv, v.34, no.1, July 1931 (x 1) 

26/6 “The economics of transition”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical 

Society, v.87, no.2, 1943 (x 5) 

26/7 “The report for the trade discussions”, Lloyds Bank Review, no.4, April 1947 

(x 1) 

26/8 “Some reflections on Europe’s trade”, Economia Internazionale, v.11, no.1, 

February 1949 (x 4 and 2 in Italian)


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26/9 “The European movement”, International Organization, v.3, no.4, 1949 (x 3) 

26/10 Nuffield College Committee annual report, 1952-53 (x 2) 

26/11 “Staff salaries in the UN family”, International Organization, v.11, no.4, 1957 

(x 3) 

26/12 “Article XXIV of the GATT rules”, Economia Internazionale, V.11, no.1, 

February 1958 (x 2) 

26/13 Folder containing 4 copies of “Die arbeiten des volkerbundes auf dem gebiet 

der wirtschaftsstatistik”, Deutsches Statistisches Zentralblatt, 

January/February 1930 

Box 27: Miscellaneous photographs and newspaper articles 

27/1/1 “What did the census mean?” by J.G. Harrison, The Christian Science 

Monitor, 26 October 1940 

27/1/2 The Montreal Daily Star, 26 May 1943 

27/2 Collection of photographs, Christmas cards and invitations 

27/3 Studio black and white photos, of Loveday? 

27/4 Miscellaneous black and white photographs 

27/5 Studio black and white photos of Loveday 

Box 28: Miscellaneous photographs, invitations, programmes and tickets 

28/1 Collection of photographs of classical and medieval people and objects 

28/2 Collection of black and white photographs of official gatherings 

28/3 Invitations, programmes and tickets to official engagements 

Box 29: Miscellaneous official photographs, watercolours and invitations 

29 Miscellaneous official and formal photographs, watercolours and invitations


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Box 30: Reviews of Loveday’s book ‘Reflections..’, miscellaneous photographs, account 

book, notebook on world commodity production and currency 

30/1 League of Nations account book 

30/2 Notebook containing details of world production of various commodities 

30/3 Paper money bag containing various currencies, tokens and vouchers 

30/4 Newspapers cutting from 16 April 1943 on conferment of D.Litt from McGill 

University on Loveday 

30/5 3 copies of photographs, of Loveday? 

30/6-8 Envelopes containing photographs; family, holiday and official 

30/9 Folder containing review and letters about Loveday’s book ‘Reflections on 

international administration’, 1956 

Box 31: Reviews of, and various correspondence about, Loveday’s publications, poem to 

his children and detailed chronology 

31/1 Detailed chronology for Loveday, 1919 – 1940 

31/2 Review of Loveday’s book ‘Britain and world trade’ from Crown Colonist 

31/3 Poem by Loveday to his children when they were ill 

31/4 Correspondence with publishers Wm. Hodge & Co. about Loveday's book 

‘The only way’, 1950, and re extracts to appear in ‘Freedom and Union’, 1953 

31/5 Correspondence with Hector McNeil, Minister of State, Foreign Office, 1946 

– 1947 regarding Loveday’s resignation from Nuclear Economic and 

Employment Committee and his speech at Chatham House on employment 

31/6 Album of newspaper cuttings and review of Loveday’s publications 

Box 32: Marriage, birth and death certificates for Loveday family and photographs 

32/1 Envelope containing ‘dictionary Mummy wrote for War Office’ 

32/2 Mrs Loveday’s death certificate


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32/3 Educational certificates of Nathalie Loveday (nee Tarnoschi) 

32/4 Envelope of photocopies of Loveday family birth, marriage etc. certificates 

32/5 4 pages from The Times of Wednesday 14 June 1916 

32/6 Envelope of family photographs 

32/7 Originals of birth and marriage certificates and Loveday’s exemption from 

military service during WWI 

32/8 Christmas card from Dr and Mrs Raymond de Saussure 

32/9 Encaenia Addresses, Oxford, 21 June 1950 

32/10 Oratio Creweiana 1950 

Box 33: Picture postcards, photographs, reviews of and correspondence about ‘The only 

way’ and American banking material 

33/1 Picture postcards 

33/2 Picture postcards, photographs and Loveday’s testimonials 

33/3 Photographs of home in Norham Gardens, Oxford 

33/4 Correspondence and reviews about ‘The only way’ and congratulations on 

election to Honorary Fellowship of Peterhouse 

33/5 Address book 

33/6 Photographs of Rome 

33/7 Newspaper cuttings of World Economic and Monetary Conference, June 1933 

(see also 35/2) 

33/8 Account book 


33/10 2 copies of Loveday’s will dated 17 th January 1955 

33/11 Records of cheques drawn in the US 

33/12 American cheque books


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33/13 American bank book 

Box 34: Loveday and Nathalie Loveday’s passports, address books and testimonials 

34/1-8 Loveday’s passports issued 1919 – 1959 

34/9-11 Nathalie Loveday’s passports issued 1922 – 1950 

34/12 Thomas Loveday’s passport issued 23 rd June 1933 

34/13 Loveday’s League of Nations identity card issued 24 th August 1921 

34/14 Nathalie Loveday’s League of Nations identity card issued 20 th November 

1939 

34/15 Cover of air ticket found in Nathalie’s passport (34/11) 

34/16 Visiting cards 

34/17 Loveday’s Post Office savings book 1903 – 1936 


34/19 Address book used as a notebook, containing notes for/from a book? 


34/21 Foreign banknotes 

34/22 Miscellaneous photographs 

34/23 Testimonials 

Box 35: Invitations, membership cards and newspaper cuttings 

35/1 Miscellaneous invitations and membership cards 

35/2 Newspaper cuttings about the World Economic and Monetary Conference 

1933 (see also 33/7)


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Box 36: File containing various notes and comments on the economic situation in Europe 

c.1939 and correspondence 1938 - 1940 

36/1 Comments on Bulgarian economics 

36/2 Notes on economic relations between Germany and the rest of Europe 

36/3 Commentary on the economic condition of Czechoslovakia and Austria 

36/4 Conclusion of a report on British/Yugoslav economic relations 

36/5 Notes on interviews with Kittredge from the Rockerfeller Foundation, 27 th 

April & 12 th September 1939 (see also 45/3) 

36/6 Notes on the extended trade area (see also 45/1) 

36/7 Note of conversation with 2 Mexican delegates, 29 th April 1939 

36/8 Acknowledgements for donation of Loveday’s publications 

36/9 Correspondence, mainly from Geneva, c1938 - 1940 

Box 37: File containing correspondence, 1930 - 1940 

37 Correspondence filed alphabetically, 1930 - 1940 

Box 38: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1925 

38 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1925 

Box 39: File containing correspondence, 1936 

39 Correspondence filed alphabetically, 1936 

Box 40: Correspondence regarding Loveday’s article ‘Suggestions for the reform of the UN 

economic and social machine’, 1953 – 1954 and file containing material on economic and 

industrial situation in Europe after World War One 

40/1 Letters concerning Loveday’s article, draft and published, ‘Suggestions for the 

reform of the United Nations economic and social machine’, 1953 – 1954


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40/2/1 Census of hosiery latch needles and hosiery machines 

40/2/2 Material relating to raw materials 

40/2/3 Sheepskins general statistics 

40/2/4 International after-war trade: general survey 

40/2/5 Restoration of industry in Europe 

40/2/6 Skin and fellmonger statistics, 1918 

40/2/7 Sheepskin statistics, 1918 

40/2/8 Note on decimal coinage and the metric system 

Box 41: Paperwork regarding League of Nations work and miscellaneous personal items 

41/1 Share statements, 1939 – 1940 

41/2 Miscellaneous photographs, identity cards, photocopy of insurance policy, 

newspaper cuttings and pictures 

41/3 Notes and minutes on peace settlement, European Union, Bulgarian external 

loans, public finance, world economic survey 1939 – 1940 and the need to 

keep up League of Nations activities, 1933 – 1942 

41/4 Collection of badges, medals and coins 

Box 42: Paperwork regarding League of Nations’ Financial Section and Economic 

Committee’s work 

42/1 Paperwork on new Finance Committee at the League of Nations 1937 

42/2 Papers relating to Loveday’s trip to the US to study the recovery 

programme 

1934 

42/3 Correspondence with members of the Secretariat 1934 

42/4 Press cuttings on the economic memorandum drawn up by the 

Economic Section of the Allied Supreme Council in London 

1920 March


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42/5/1 Memo to Secretary General of the League on membership of 

committees 

42/5/2 Aide-memoire for the Financial Section and Economic Intelligence 

Service 

1934 Dec 29 

42/5/3 Draft report and list of people Loveday met in Canada 

42/6/1 Note by Stoppain attached to note concerning the adoption by the US 

of the contractual method in commercial policy 

1934 July 6 - 

30 

42/6/2 Speech by Feis , Economic Adviser to Department of State 1934 Mar 17 

42/6/3 Economic Committee of League of Nations document on mostfavoured 

nation clause and multilateral treaties 

1934 Sept 18 

42/6/4 List of clearing agreements 1934 Sept 14 

Box 43: Box file containing personal correspondence prior to 1930 

43 Personal correspondence prior to 1930, filed alphabetically, including letters from The 

Encyclopaedia Britannica about his articles and the University of Liverpool about a 

possible professorship 

Box 44: Personal correspondence, 1930 - 1940 

44 Personal correspondence, 1930 – 1940, including letters about articles, especially 

‘Britain and world trade’, broadcasts and elections to membership of various societies 

(CLOSED) 

Box 45: ‘Letter book’ containing League of Nations correspondence for 1940 

45/1 Notes on extended trade area in Europe (see also 36/6) 

45/2 Requests for material from the Library 

45/3 Notes on conversations with Kittredge (see also 36/5), Goodrich and Richter 

45/4 Notes on the war and post-war problems 

45/5 Correspondence relating to the Secretariat, filed alphabetically


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45/6 Correspondence relating to the Section, filed alphabetically 

45/7 General correspondence filed alphabetically either by name or subject 

Box 46: Box file containing personal correspondence, 1941 – 1957 

46 Box file containing personal correspondence, 1941 – 1957, mainly dealing with 

Loveday’s time in the US. Also, paper about E.E.C. delivered at Mont Pelerin Society, 

Kassel, Sept 5 – 10 1960 ‘Europe at sixes and sevens’ (CLOSED) 

Box 47: Box file containing papers relating to the education of Loveday’s sons 

47 Box file containing correspondence and papers relating to education of Loveday’s 

sons; letters, reports, prospectuses, bills and examination papers 

Box 48: Box file marked letter book personal 1949 - 1950 

48 Box file marked ‘Letter book (Warden personal) 1949 – 1950’ (CLOSED) 

Box 49: Box file marked letter book personal 1950 - 1953 

49 Box file marked ‘Letter book (Warden personal) from 1 st Oct 1950 – Sept 1953’ 

(CLOSED) 

Box 50: League of Nations correspondence and papers, 1927 - 1938 

50 Correspondence and papers relating to League of Nations business including; the 

Economic and Financial Organisation, Committee on Raw Materials, notes on 

Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Germany, Estonia and Venezuela , the Rockerfeller 

Foundation, International Institute of Statistics and World economic survey 1932 - 

1933 

Box 51: Box file marked strictly private; correspondence 1931 - 1935 

51 Box file marked ‘A. Loveday, strictly private 1934 – 1935’, containing correspondence 

from 1931 and including the financial situations in Hungary and Bulgaria (CLOSED)


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Box 52: Box file marked staff; containing notes and papers relating to staffing and budget 

issues at the League of Nations before and during the Second World War, 1939 - 1940 

52/1 Documents relating to an investigation of the standing charges of the budgets of the 

Secretariat and the International Labour Organisation, 1938 – 1939 

52/2 Documents on Austria’s economic problems, in French 

52/3 Papers giving a breakdown of staffing levels and job descriptions and where savings 

could be made, some in French 

52/4 Report of the Special Economies Committee into the budget and staffing issues and 

papers giving recommendations for re-organisation and staff reduction 

52/5 Papers on the economic and financial organisation of the League in the event of war 

and notes to League staff on procedures during the war 

52/6 Documents relating to the Special Committee on the Reorganisation of Work and 

Redistribution of Staff, 1940, and the Committee on Budgetary Economics, 1939 

52/7 List of British officials who worked in the Secretariat and those who had left and were 

still in Geneva 

52/8 Special Economies Committee draft general report and related documentation 

Box 53: Documents relating to the International Chamber of Commerce’s work in Europe 

in the 1950s, papers from the 11 th meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society and various economic 

lectures and talks 


53/2 2 documents from the British National Committee of the International 

Chamber of Commerce: ‘Current economic developments in Europe’ and 

Committee on European Affairs meeting report, 27 th Sept 1956 

53/3 Various documents from the International Chamber of Commerce’s 

Commission on European Affairs 

1956 

53/4 ‘The achievements of the E.C.S.C during the first four years’ 

53/5 Commission on European Affairs report on a free trade area in Europe and 

covering letter 

53/6 First part of the report on European economic integration prepared by the 

Inter-Governmental Committee appointed by the Messina Conference 

1958 April 

1956 April


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53/7 Draft opinion on state trading 

53/8 Commission on European Affairs summary of the report on the Common 

Market 

53/9 British National Committee’s Committee on European Affairs agenda and 

minutes 

1956 April 21 

1956 Sept 27 

53/10 Mont Pelerin Society’s report on the 11 th meeting 1958 Sept 8- 

13 

53/11 Report on the possibilities of co-operation by the OEEC countries on the 

case of world recession, by Harrod 

1958? 

53/12 ‘The capital question’ by R. Lewis 

53/13 Report on the Euratom plan, anon 

53/14 Giscard d’Estaing to Sir Edward Beddinton-Behrens and his reply; on the 

common market 

1957 Aug 

53/15 ‘The protection of duly acquired right in international dealings as a 

European duty; reflection on the development of the Suez Crisis’ by H.J. 

Abs 

53/16 ‘Free trade area for all O.E.E.C. countries’ by Harrod 1956 Sept 

53/17 Letters and reprint letters from Beddington-Behrens and Sermon on the 

Declaration of Principle of the European Movement (VERY FRAGILE) 

53/18 ‘The sterling area and the European free trade proposal’ with a list of Bow 

Group publications 

53/19 Typed list of Loveday’s publications; books and articles 

53/20 Benelux – an introductory description 

53/21 Loose-leaf notebook with miscellaneous entries 

53/22 Papers of European League for Economic Co-operation, draft of paper on 

international trade and miscellaneous papers (VERY FRAGILE – 

CLOSED) 

53/23 Who’s Who proof entry for Loveday 1960 

53/24 Insurance: investors chronicle annual survey 1957 Dec 6


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53/25 Memorandum and articles of association of the American Volunteer 

Motor-Ambulance Corps Incorporated 

53/26 The Mont Pelerin Society papers from the 11 th meeting at Kassel, 

Germany 

1915 Apr 16 

1960 Sept 5 - 

10 

Box 54: Papers relating to the Mont Pelerin Society (1957 – 1960), the United Kingdom 

Council of the European Movement’s Political and Economic Conference of the Seven 

(1960) and various correspondence (1919 – 1920) 

54/1 Pocket of miscellaneous Mont Pelerin Society papers (FRAGILE) 1959 - 1960 

54/2 The Mont Pelerin Society papers from the 10 th anniversary meeting at St 

Moritz, Switzerland 

1957 Sept 2 – 

8 

54/3 Nuffield College members lists (CLOSED) 1953 – 1954 

54/4 ‘British Restrictive Trade Practices Act of 1956’ article by Dennison 

54/5 Miscellaneous typescripts on the European Economic Community 

54/6 Correspondence between Loveday, White & Scott about the development 

of the Castle Mound 

54/7 United Kingdom Council of the European Movement’s Political and 

Economic Conference of the Seven papers, speeches by Wyndham White 

and Selwyn Lloyd and a Chamber of Commerce pamphlet on EFTA 

markets 

1950 April - 

May 

1960 

54/8 File of miscellaneous papers and tables on the European economy 1950 - 1955 

54/9 5 letters to Bishop regarding the publication of Loveday’s statistical 

pamphlets 

1920 May 10 – 

Jun 3 

54/10 Loveday to Butler 1920 Jan 22 

54/11 Correspondence between Loveday and the Manchester and District Branch 

of the League of Nations concerning British armaments expenditure 

54/12 Correspondence between Loveday and Blackett about a report from a 

meeting at Cambridge 

1920 Feb 20 – 

25 

1919 Jan 9 – 

13 

54/13 2 letters to Barnes on settling of an account 1919 Nov 22 - 

25


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54/14 Loveday to the Library at the British Museum requesting the renewal of 

his reading ticket 

1919 Nov 11 

54/15 Folder marked minutes with League of Nations correspondence 1920 Jun – 

Nov 

54/16 League of Nations’ handouts on the correct address of the Secretariat 1920 Nov 6 – 

8 

54/17 Loveday to the Secretary of the Delegation 1920 Sept 24 

Box 55: Correspondence, July 1919 – Dec 1920 

55 File of correspondence, alphabetically arranged 1919 Jul – 

1920 Dec 

Box 56: Correspondence, 1920 & 1946 – 1950, and miscellaneous articles and notes 

56/1 Minutes to Watterson, Dame Crowdy, Dame Crowdy’s secretary & 

Senator Bodio 

1920 Sept 15 

56/2 Loveday to Bodio 1920 Sept 14 

56/3 W.T.L. to the Belgian Ambassador 1920 Sept 14 

56/4 Letters from Lloyd to Bishop regarding Pigou and Bruin’s memorandum 1920 Aug 16 - 

Sept 2 

56/5 Correspondence, B from alphabetical sequence 1920 May – 

Jul 

56/6 Buxton to Loveday on a paragraph in The Times of Nov 27 Nov 28 

56/7 Gerould to Loveday 1929 Jun 27 

56/8 Papers relating to the Library and its holdings at the Secretariat and an 

alphabetical file of correspondence, mainly from Geneva 

1921 Jul – Dec 

56/9 Skeleton appointments diary in a ring note book 1924 – 1940 

56/10 Oxford correspondence (CLOSED) 1946 - 1950 

56/11 File of articles on GATT and financial correspondence


MSS.LOVEDAY 

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56/12 Draft of a report of the Pensions Review Group 

56/13 Miscellaneous lecture notes 

56/14 Draft financial notes 

56/15 Miscellaneous notes 

56/16 ‘Increasing the efficiency of administration by better motivation of the 

public servant’ report by Dr. Bursche for the XIth International Congress 

of Administrative Sciences 

1959 Aug 30 – 

Sept 3 

56/17 1 page of notes, a lecture sheet and a sheet of reproduced photographs 

(FRAGILE)

Loveday - Nuffield College

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