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4.: mill to ricardo1[Answered by 5] - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815 [1810]

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The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, ed. Piero Sraffa with the Collaboration of M.H. Dobb (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005). Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815.

Part of: The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, 11 vols (Sraffa ed.)

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4.

mill to ricardo1
[Answered by 5]

My dear Sir

I send you the first part of the papers I took occasion to mention to you.2 You can read this, while I am reading the remainder. What I send you is about a third part of the whole. —The whole will interest you, unfinished as is the state in which you will find it—but I do not think it will do for publication. In some respects it is too elementary—in others too abstruse—the premises and conclusions are not placed in the most lucid order, and the views are not always correct. —In fact they are loose papers of the author, not put in order, on a subject which he ceased to study before he had probed it to the bottom.—

I shall thank you to jot down your remarks—and to make them pretty minute. Because as my opinion will be followed by the translator in regard to the propriety of publishing, I shall be glad to have my opinion fortified by yours.

I long to see your pamphlet1 in its tout-ensemble. Take care they dont neglect to print a table of contents—as they did in the first Edition of Mushets.2

Dear Sir Yours truly

J. Mill

[1 ]Addressed: ‘David Ricardo Esq.’ —not passed through the post.

MS in R.P.

[2 ]The MS of Dumont’s translation of Bentham’s Alarm (Sur les prix); see above, III, 269 ff.

[1 ]Reply to Bosanquet.

[2 ]Mushet’s Enquiry into the Effects produced on the National Currency and Rates of Exchange by the Bank Restriction Bill, 1810. The table of contents was added in the 2nd ed., 1810.