Econlib

The Library

Other Sites

Front Page arrow Titles (by Subject) arrow 25.: ricardo to malthus 1[Answered by 26] - The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815

Return to Title Page for The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815

Search this Title:

25.: ricardo to malthus 1[Answered by 26] - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815 [1810]

Edition used:

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.)

About Liberty Fund:

Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.


25.

ricardo to malthus 1
[Answered by 26]

Dear Sir

I hoped long ere this to have had the pleasure of seeing you in London. I am anxious for an opportunity of introducing Mrs. Malthus and Mrs. Ricardo to each other, and I shall certainly claim the half promise which Mrs. Malthus made me on that subject when I experienced your hospitality at Hertford. We have few engagements, and have a bed always at your disposal so that I shall hope on your very first visit to London you will favour me by occupying it.

A friend2 of mine has been writing on the subject of bullion.—I take the liberty of sending you the MS. If you could look over it and give me your opinion of it you will much oblige me. He would be induced to prepare it for the press, if he thought that the mode in which the argument is put is more likely to silence our adversaries and convince those who are not our adversaries than the mode in which it has been put by any other person.

Should you be so engaged that you cannot devote your attention to it at the present time, use no ceremony with me, but return the MS by the coach directed to me at No. 16 Throgmorton Street.

With best respects to Mrs. Malthus I am Dear Sir Your’s very truly

David Ricardo

[1 ]MS at Albury.—Letters to Malthus, VIII.

[2 ]Mill; see above, p. 59.