Scope and Content Note
The papers of Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown (1842-1917) span the years 1879-1928 with the bulk of the material dating between 1897 and 1917. The correspondence relates chiefly to Fillebrown's promotion of the single tax concept. Correspondents include Thomas Nixon Carver, John Bates Clark, John R. Commons, Richard T. Ely, Frank A. Fetter, Max Hirsch, Alvin Saunders Johnson, J. Shield Nicholson, Carl C. Plehn, Edwin R. A. Seligman, F. W. Taussig, Carroll Davidson Wright, and Allyn Abbott Young. As part of his effort to build support for the single tax among mainstream academia, Fillebrown sent out a questionnaire on the subject to three hundred professors of political economy. The collection contains 165 responses. Also included are papers relating to the Massachusetts Single Tax League of which Fillebrown was president for many years. They consist chiefly of correspondence, speeches, and printed matter.