Alfred MARSHALL (1842–1924). 3 letters, Cambridge, May 24–June 17, 1908, to Émile Levasseur; 7 pages, in-8 format, addressed to him; 2 in French, the 3rd in English. Interesting correspondence regarding his candidacy for the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He is honored that “the Section of Political Economy, Statistics, and Finance” is nominating him “to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences to replace Lord Goschen as a corresponding member,” which he accepts with gratitude (May 24). He received “from the Permanent Secretary of the Institut de France formal notification of my election as a corresponding member”; he will prove himself worthy of this honor (June 15). In a long, four-page letter in English (June 17), he explained the difficulties he was facing with his book *National Industry and Trade*: he had sent the first part to the printer in 1904, but then his work slowed down and he realized he would not be able to finish it for several years; he has just resigned from his chair at Cambridge to go work in South Tyrol: “I hope to write in the high mountains (1,500–1,600 meters) during the summer.” That is why it is impossible for him to turn his thoughts in another direction and attend the next congress of the Institute of Statistics in Paris. Nevertheless, he holds the Institute’s work in high regard and believes that no topic is more important for discussion than wages (“I have the very highest regard for the excellent work being done by the Institute; and I think that no question could be more important for their discussion than that of ‘salaries’”…