Bank memoranda
Series: Harvard pre-1920 social history/business preservation microfilm project -- 03299
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1854-1868
Place of publication: London?
Language: eng
Subjects: Banks and banking; Bank of England
Description: Annotated in manuscript, possibly by Sir Edward Walter Hamilton (1847-1908), a Treasury official and private secretary to Gladstone. The signature, E.W. Hamilton appears on the front lining paper. The "Memorandum on the question of establishing a national or state bank" was published as Appendix no.16 of the Select committee on the bank acts of the House of Commons, 1858. Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844 has title page with imprint: London, Printed by Harrison and Sons.
Notes: Binder's title.

Interleaved.

Arbuthnot was a treasury official from 1820-1865 and closely associated with the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, in the framing of the Bank Charter Act of 1844.
Table of contents: title: [pt.1] Report on the privileges of the Bank of England, Dec. 22, 1854; title: [pt.2] Bank Act of 1844. Correspondence between Earl Grey and Mr. Arbuthnot, 1856; title: [pt.3] Bank Act of 1844. Correspondence between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Arbuthnot, August and September 1856; title: [pt.4] Bank Act of 1844. Correspondence between Lord J. Russell and Mr. G. Arbuthnot, 1857-1858; title: [pt.5] Memorandum on the question of establishing a national or state bank, February 10, 1858; title: [pt.6] [Correspondence between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Arbuthnot on the Bank Act and the money market, Sept. and Oct., 1864; title: [pt.7] Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844, regulating the issue of bank notes, vindicated, [1868].