The Letters between John Hicks and Ursula Webb September-December, 1935 (88 letters unearthed in 2003)

   The Letters between John Hicks and Ursula Webb      
                September-December, 1935

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Working Paper No.207   

Institute for Economic and Business Administration Research,

University of Hyogo

Nishiku, Kobe, 651-2197,

Japan

  

The Letters between John Hicks and Ursula Webb

September-December, 1935

edited by

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Eleonora Sanfilippo

with Toshiaki Hirai and Tamotsu Nishizawa

CONTENTS

 Acknowledgements                                                                                                           

I. Introduction. Dear John, Dear Ursula (Cambridge and LSE, 1935)

                           M.C. Marcuzzo and E. Sanfilippo

II. The Correspondence     

Photographs                                                             Dramatis Personae                                                    Names Index                                                                                                                      

III. The Hicks Papers                                                                                                      

T. Ogose, T. Nishizawa and T. Hirai

IV. The Writings of J.R. Hicks                                        

I. Liakopoulou

“Eighty eight letters were unearthed while sifting through the Hicks papers at the Library of University of Hyogo, Japan, in December 2003. They were written between September and December 1935, when John Hicks had left LSE[1] for Cambridge, having being appointed University lecturer and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, while Ursula (then Webb) was at the LSE, where she had been student from 1929 and was currently a member of the staff. The letters cover the three months preceding their wedding, which took place in London, on December 17, 1935.

It is a daily exchange, with just the odd interruption marking the days when they would visit each other (mostly at weekends) either in Cambridge or in London. It is a portrait of a marriage in the making, a picture of an academic milieu and a glimpse into British society of the 1930s.”

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