Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan James S. Denham Papers |
Sir James Steuart, born at Edinburgh, studies law at Edinburgh University and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1735. During his grand tour he became acquainted with Charles Stuart and returned to Scotland in 1740, a believer in the Jacobite cause. During the uprising of 1745 Steuart was an active supporter of the Pretender, writing the manifesto that was addressed to the English people. He was in Paris when the defeat at Culloden ended the rebellion. Steuart spent the next 18 years in exile on the Continent. While there he began to study political economy and to publish essays in the field. Through the intercession of his friends Lord Barrington and Lady Mary Whortley Montagu, Steuart was allowed to return to his home in 1763. He retired to Coltness, where he wrote his great mercantile treatise, An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (1767). Steuart was formally pardoned in 1771. He assumed the name Denham upon inheriting the estate of Westshields in 1773.
Letters of Sir James Steuart Denham, British political economist.
This collection contains ten letters written by Denham at Coltness to his friend Archibald Hamilton in which he discusses the British prosecution of the American War and his opposition to government policies based on economic grounds.
Purchased, 1960
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