IMF Archives: Finding Aids

Office of the Managing Director Records

Per Jacobsson Papers

OMD Chronological Files

Content and structure

Scope and content: Series consists of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence and internal memoranda which cover the period 1956-1963. Addressees include the Deputy Managing Director, Secretary, Treasurer and other Department Heads, Executive Directors, governors of central banks, ministers of finance and other government offices and heads of commercial banks. A large amount of correspondence concerns schedules, meetings and travel arrangements, invitations or gifts. However, the Chronological Files also contain records of meetings (with Department Heads, country authorities, bankers) as well as work programs, points for discussions, speeches and occasionally Managing Director's comments or briefings on papers prepared by the staff on particular subjects. These internal memoranda together with sometimes lengthy personal letters to Executive Directors, government officials and bankers cover all the measures taken by the IMF in response to the economic problems of the 1950s and 1960s and illustrate the manner in which Managing Director Jacobsson coordinated the financial and monetary issues at the international level, including such issues as the exchange markets, the common market, credit policy and "bills only" policy, international trade balancing fund, IMF borrowing from industrial countries, balance of payments problems, convertibility, the gold standard, and international liquidity. Of interest are the documents related to the General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB). There is also correspondence in these files related to the publication of Jacobsson's book "Some Monetary Problems: International and National".

The Chronological files differ from the Correspondence series in that these are specifically "outgoing" and are arranged chronologically, where the files in the Correspondence series are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject. The Chronological files were also known as "Day Files". There will be some overlap between the Chronological Files and the Correspondence series.

Associated Materials

Related units of description: See also Correspondence Series for incoming correspondence.

File 6/129

Day File. — December 1956

Files      6/130-141

Day File. — January-December 1957 General note: 12 folders. Language: Predominantly English. French.

Files      6/142-152

Day File. — January-December 1958 General note: No file for October 1957. 11 folders.

Files      6/153-164

Day File. — January-December 1959 General note: 12 folders.

Files      7/165-176

Day File. — January-December 1960 General note: 12 folders.

Files      7/177-188

Day File. — January-December 1961 General note: 12 folders.

Files      8/189-200

Day File. — January-December 1962 General note: 12 folders.

Files      8/201-206

Day File. — January-July 1963 General note: 6 folders.

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