Bertram Wodehouse Currie, 1827-1896. Recollections, letters and journals

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Published for private circulation. Currie was a senior partner in Currie & Co and, later, in Glyn Mills Currie & Co. He was influential in the City of London. The contents of Volume 1 fall into two parts: Part 1] 'Recollections, 1827-96' being a memoir written by Currie in 1896 and referring much to his business career and notably the Baring Crisis; 'Speech to the International Monetary Conference at Brussels'; 'Speech at the London Institution, May 22 1895'; ''The currency question for laymen', published in 'National Review', Jun 1895'; 'Mr Goschen's currency suggestions - letter to 'The Times', 30 Jan 1891'; 'Speech on unveiling a statue to Me Gladstone ...' Part 2] 'Letters from Germany, 1845-8'; 'Letters from South America, 1849-50'; 'Letters from Jamaica and North America, 1850'; 'Letters from London and Switzerland, 1851-52'; The contents of Volume 2 are: 'Journal in South America, Jamaica and North America, 1849-50'; 'Letters and journals, 1857 to 1885', largely unconnected with business; 'Letters, etc, 1885 to 1992 - International Monetary Conference'; 'The Indian Currency Committee'; 'Letters, 1893, tour in Italy, 1894'; 'Royal Commission on the Financial Relations between Great Britain and Ireland, 1894-96'; 'Gold Standard Defence Association, letters 1894-96, last illness'. Supported by substantial indexes