Manuscripts

Chronological outline of events in Gay's life

Description: Included: Schedule of lecture courses.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1886-1944
Call number: mssGY
Creator: Gay, Edwin F (1867-1946)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Margaret Gay Davies, 1973.
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Correspondence in regard to: Gay's economic thought; interests, his portrait at Harvard and chronologies of his life

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A collection of 9,601 items from 1786 to 1973, which consists of professional and personal material related to Edwin Francis Gay's life and multifaceted career. The collection documents his career in the civil service, at Harvard University, the New York Evening Post, and the Huntington Library; there are also some papers related to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Subjects include European economic recovery after World War I; international economic relations after World War II; United States business; and Gay's voluminous research notes on European and American economic history. Also included are Gay's notes on the Temple family papers in the Stowe collection at the Huntington Library and correspondence and papers relative to Herbert Heaton's book Scholar in action : Edwin Francis Gay (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1952). The collection also includes business, family and personal correspondence, documents, genealogy, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Also present is Woodrow Wilson telegram to Edwin Francis Gay, 1919 September 17 (GY 3292) in Box 124.

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Edward Randolph to Louise (FitzRandolph) Gay and Edwin Francis Gay and Margaret Randolph (Gay) Davies

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Included: Margaret Randolph (Gay) Davies letters to her parents.

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Gay and Loud family documents and genealogy

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Included: Miscellaneous correspondence to Edwin Francis Gay and Louke.

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Mary (Loud) Gay to Edwin Francis Gay and Aaron F. Gay to Edwin Francis Gay

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Edwin Francis Gay to Margaret Randolph (Gay) Davies; Edward FitzRandolph Gay; Mary (Loud) Gay; Aaron F. Gay, etc

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Louise (FitzRandolph) Gay to Edwin Francis Gay and Mary (Loud) Gay

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Chronological outline of events in Gay's life

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Correspondence in regard to: Gay's economic thought; interests, his portrait at Harvard and chronologies of his life

Edward Randolph to Louise (FitzRandolph) Gay and Edwin Francis Gay and Margaret Randolph (Gay) Davies

Gay and Loud family documents and genealogy

Mary (Loud) Gay to Edwin Francis Gay and Aaron F. Gay to Edwin Francis Gay

Edwin Francis Gay to Margaret Randolph (Gay) Davies; Edward FitzRandolph Gay; Mary (Loud) Gay; Aaron F. Gay, etc

Louise (FitzRandolph) Gay to Edwin Francis Gay and Mary (Loud) Gay