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Letter from A. C. Pigou to F. W. Pethick-Lawrence
Letter from A. C. Pigou to F. W. Pethick-Lawrence
PETH/3/67 · Item · 10 Feb. 1923
Part of Pethick-Lawrence Papers

King’s College, Cambridge.—Suggests sources of information on the subsidising of railways (cf. 2/198, 2/230).

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King’s College | Cambridge
Feb 10

Dear Lawrence,

I’m afraid I don’t know of anything about subsidies to railways in a systematic form. There might be bits about it in the ordinary railway books, and there’s a book about cheap fares in Belgium, Mahaim’s Les abonnements d’ouvriers pour les lignes de chemin de fer (Misch & Thron, Brussels) {1}: also in Rowntree’s Life and Labour in Belgium {2} and other such names {3}. But I can’t think of anything about England

Yours
A C Pigou

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Pigou’s handwriting is indistinct. Someone—perhaps Pethick-Lawrence himself—has attempted a transcription of it in pencil, interlined below the corresponding text, but the transcription appears to be wrong in some cases, and there are, forgivably, some gaps. The year is not indicated, but the letter was clearly written at about the same time as 2/230.

{1} Ernest Mahaim, Les Abonnements d’ouvriers sur les lignes de chemins de fer Belges et leurs effets sociaux (1910).

{2} R. S. Rowntree, Land and Labour: Lessons from Belgium (1911).

{3} ‘and other such names’: reading uncertain.
Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan
TRER/12/20 · Item · 25 June 1896
Part of Papers of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan

House of Commons. - Went to Harrow for the Governors' meeting and the Contio [Latina] but had to leave before the 'spread'. The head of school, Pigou, belonged to the 'modern side', and his speech was 'rather matter of fact'. A new drawing school has been built next to the speechroom, which he rather liked. Asks how the country looks, whether there is water in the river and whether the hay making has begun. Is very busy, and worried about kept late due to the 'Scotch Rating bill' which is designed to apply 'the abominable system' which [the Liberals] have been opposing to Scotland. Mr [Edward?] Bowen and some boys are in the [Public] Gallery; fears they will find it slow but will go and see them. Hopes Bowen will come to Wallington.