Scope and Contents

Some 220 broadside ballads of the 19th century, from the library of W.A.S. Hewins.

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Scope and Contents The papers and correspondence of William Albert Samuel Hewins (1865-1931), economist, historian and politician, and first director of the London School of Economics.The documents include official government papers, notes, lecture notes and diaries, together with an extensive and important correspondence involving leading politicians and dignitaries of the day.The collection also includes the unlisted papers of his son, M.G. Hewins.For further details of...