The Warburton Collection at George Mason

Abstract

Clark Warburton (1896-1976) was a pioneer in the field of monetary economics. His lifework is well preserved in the Warburton Collection at George Mason University. The collection is stored in 117 document boxes in the special collections room of Fenwick Library and is accessible by use of a locator index. After Warburton's death on 18 September 1979, Leland Yeager was asked by the family to make an initial listing of the materials that were to form the first deposit of some 80 boxes to the Warburton Collection. On 29 September and 2 October. Yeager visited Warburton's home in McLean, Virginia, and took an inventory of the many files and boxes of papers Clark Warburton left behind. And on 20 October 1979, Peter Warburton — after having discussed the matter with Bill Snavely, Karen Vaughn, and Jim Bennett of the economics department at GMU and other interested parties -wrote Yeager requesting that his father's papers be deposited at George Mason: