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36.: ricardo to malthus1[Fragment] - 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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36.

ricardo to malthus1
[Fragment]

[...] by assuring you that I was not going to weary you with a repetition of my hundred times told tale, and I am ashamed to see that I have filled four sides with nothing else. There are some other points on which I shall make some remarks when I have the pleasure of seeing you. If you should come to town will you do me the favor to call at the Stock Exchge, unless my house should not be much out of your way. I recommend your calling there because I am just about deserting Brook Street for some time. Mrs. Ricardo and all the family are going to Ramsgate to morrow morning, and she will not consent to let me remain at home by myself, so that when I am in London I shall be chiefly with my brother2 at Bow;—now and then I shall pass a night at home. My business is so uncertain that I cannot at all fore-see what portion of the next two or 3 months I shall be able to spend at the sea side. It is probable that I shall be so much in town that I shall be found by you at the Stock Exchge. —Be so good as to make my compliments to Mrs. Malthus and believe me

Your’s most truly

David Ricardo

[1 ]Only the last half-sheet of this letter is preserved. Addressed on back: ‘The Revd. T. R Malthus’; not sealed and not passed through the post; was perhaps enclosed in a parcel with a MS of Malthus. The date must be 1812 or 1813 (after Ricardo’s moving to Brook Street, and before his taking Gatcomb Park); in both those years the Ricardos went to Ramsgate in the summer. The paper is watermarked ‘1807’ and is identical with that of letter 38.

MS at Albury.—Letters to Malthus, p. 105 (not numbered).

[2 ]Moses Ricardo.