T. Rowe Price

Sources

GENERAL

Many of the facts and information contained in this book were derived from the private files of the T. Rowe Price Group and interviews conducted by the author. These are not available to the public.

PRIVATE JOURNALS: For over forty years of his adult life, T. Rowe Price kept a journal. After his death six journal volumes were made available to the T. Rowe Price Group and quotes were used for a private corporate history written for the firm's fiftieth anniversary in 1987 but they were never published. They were also made available for an article, “The Diaries of T. Rowe Price,” published in the August 1987 issue of the now‐defunct Warfield's magazine, a semi‐monthly Maryland business periodical published from 1986 to 1991.All six journal volumes were lost over the intervening years. Recently, however, one of the journals, covering the years 1943–1950, was discovered, viewed by the author for this book, and is now privately held by T. Rowe Price Group.

A second important source for this book was The History of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. The author, Edmund L. Andrews, was a professional writer who later became an economics correspondent for the New York Times. He had access not only to Mr. Price's journals, but also to two of the founders, Charlie Schaeffer and Walter Kidd, as well as to all of their records and notes, which have also vanished over the years. The book was intended for the company's fiftieth anniversary in 1987, but was never published. Its 144 ...