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The Journal of W. Stanley Jevons records the development of his thoughts, his feelings, his purposes and his struggles during the fifteen most vital years of his life. It is an intimate and even a moving document. Jevons started this journal in 1852 when he was almost seventeen, and he continued to write in it until just before his marriage in 1867. After that there is only one entry, made in 1869.
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H. Hale Bellot, University College, London, 1826–1926 (1929) p. 298.
W. A. Tilden, Famous Chemists (1930).
J. Norman Collie, A Century of Chemistry (1927), quoted Bellot, op. cit., p. 127.
W. S. Jevons, Principles of Economics (1905) p. vii. A fragment of a note left by Jevons reads: ‘It was in 1851 that I first began, at the age of sixteen, to study the industrial mechanism of society, purchasing for the purpose some of the … By the year 1857 … I had achieved a careful study of the London Directory.’
Punch gave the building this name (Punch, Vol. xix, p. 183). See G. R. Fay, Palace of Industry, 1851 (Cambridge, 1951) p. 15.
Sir John Craig, The Mint. A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948 (Cambridge 1953) p. 386.
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H. E. Barfi, A Short Historical Account of the University of Sydney, 1852–1902 (Sydney 1902).
Lionel Robbins, ‘The Place of Jevons in the History of Economic Thought’, The Manchester School, vii (1936), pp. 11 and 12.
Cf. Keynes, Essays in Biography, p. 284; R. D. Gollison Black, ‘W. S. Jevons and the Economists of his Time’, Manchester School, xxx, 3 (September 1962) p. 205.
T. S. Ashton, Economic and Social Investigations in Manchester, 1833–1933 (1934), Ch. vii, ‘The Work of Stanley Jevons and Others’, p. 87; Thompson, History of Owens College, p. 254.
See Thompson, op. cit., pp. 244–9; and R. Könekamp, ‘William Stanley Jevons, Some Biographical Facts’, Manchester School, xxx, 3 (September 1962) pp. 265–6.
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Black, R.D.C., Könekamp, R. (1972). Biographical Introduction. In: Black, R.D.C., Könekamp, R. (eds) Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00720-2_1
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