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Maitland collection of South Sea Company and Mississippi Scheme papers

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Description
Collection consists of correspondence and papers concerning the South Sea Company and the Mississippi Scheme. Materials include letters and documents, 1669-1747, of notable English persons who were involved in the South Sea Company affair; letters and papers, 1712-1771, relating to the company, its directors and shareholders; and letters and papers, 1690-1774, of persons in Great Britain and France who participated in the Mississippi Scheme or who were friends or benefactors of John Law.
Names
Maitland, Alexander (Creator)
Law, John, 1671-1729 (Contributor)
South Sea Company (Contributor)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1669 - 1774
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 1848
Topics
Capitalism
Debts, Public
Finance -- France
Finance -- Great Britain
Mississippi Scheme
Monopolies -- South America
Restraint of trade
France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
South Sea Company
Genres
Correspondence
Records (Documents)
Notes
Biographical/historical: The South Sea Company was formed circa 1711 by the British government with a monopoly on trade in South America in exchange for liquidating the British national debt by selling shares in its trading enterprises and funding payment of the debt from a part of the company's capital stock. In 1721 the inflated value of the company's shares collapsed which brought on the fall of the British government and widespread financial and political ruin. The Mississippi Scheme was a rival project in France devised by the Scottish economist John Law.
Content: Collection formerly known as South Sea Company Miscellaneous Papers
Acquisition: Gift, Maitland, Alexander, 1897
Ownership: MSS 86M15
Physical Description
Extent: .15 linear feet (1 v.)
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12018646
MSS Unit ID: 1848
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4f2ed160-38db-0139-f37f-0242ac110004
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