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Mises Institute
Mises Institute
19 Feb 2025
Tho Bishop


NextImg:Grove City’s Mises Archives Now Available Online

Our friends at Grove City College have accomplished an incredible feat, digitizing their archive of Ludwig von Mises’s personal papers. In 1978, Hans Senholz acquired this remarkable collection for the college from Margit von Mises and until this week, it was only accessible through a visit to Grove City.

Anyone who has read Guido Hulsmann’s Mises: Last Knight of Liberalism has already experienced a taste of what is available within these papers, as they were an essential part of his research for that project.

Navigating the archives offers viewers to explore 13 different categories of papers:

Series 1: General Correspondence

Series 2: College and University Correspondence

Series 3: Publishing Correspondence

Series 4: Manuscript Files

Series 5: Published Materials

Series 6: Personal Papers of Ludwig von Mises

Series 7: Personal Papers of Margit von Mises

Series 8: Correspondence Relating to the Death of Ludwig von Mises

Series 9: Photograph Files

Series 10: Pamphlet Files

Series 11: Collection Correspondence

Series 12: Oversized Materials

Series 13: Books

Some collections that may be of particular interest are his correspondence with Murray Rothbard (123), F.A. Hayek (1,2,3,4), and Henry Hazlitt (12345).

Some particularly interesting finds I have discovered is a letter from Mises explaining why he is not a conservative, leading to him to turn down a speaking opportunity with the Yale Conservative Society. Another is a letter to William F. Buckley, criticizing an article he wrote for the National Review that attempted to write Robert Welch and the John Birch Society out of the “conservative movement.”

With the Mises archives consisting of over 20,000 articles, hours and hours could be spent exploring these unique personal items from one of the greatest intellectuals the world has produced. While a lot of the papers are small social notes with his broad circle of friends and contacts, there are still incredible insights into Mises the man and his views on the changing world around him during his years in America.

Thank you to Grove City College for making this available to all.