Correspondence and papers on the education and early career of Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961), economic historian.

The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.

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The volume was presented to King's College Library by C.R. Fay in 1943, but was transferred almost immediately to the University Library.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

The collection of "Letters from Oscar Browning to Charles Ryle Fay" is at CUL MS.Add.7461 University of London Library reference GB 096 MS 431, business papers of Garteret Priaulx & Co. on the history of Guernsey

Hugh Gault "The Quirky Dr Fay: A Remarkable Life", Cambridge , Gretton Books, 2011: ISBN 9780956204158.