This is the second and final volume of the work entitled T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University.

Kanto Gakuen University acquired in March 1991 a set of original manuscripts by Malthus and his associates, and decided to publish a typed transcript in a two-volume book. Volume I was edited by John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry, and published for the Royal Economic Society by Cambridge University Press in 1997. Volume II is edited and published by the same team.

The history of the University's sponsorship of this undertaking was explained in the preface to the first volume, and is not repeated here.

The contents of Volume II vary widely, exhibiting the extensive range of Malthus' intellectual interests. On religion, it contains four sermons on Biblical themes. On economics, there is an essay on foreign trade and lengthy analysis of how to make profits from arbitrage transactions in the bullion trade. The latter suggests that Malthus may have had not only theoretical but also a commercial interest in bullion trading, possibly incited by his association with David Ricardo, successful stockbroker and famous economist. On history, Malthus' questions and answers on early European history indicate that, during at least one period of his life, he had a keen interest in the events of that period and had prepared detailed notes for lectures.