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98.: ricardo to murray1 - 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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98.

ricardo to murray1

Dear Sir

Should you like a little of the loan2 which is to be bid for on wednesday? If you should be so good as to let me know, to-day, or to-morrow, how much you wish to have.

Yrs. truly

David Ricardo

I hope you are no worse for the attack which was made on you.3

[1 ]Addressed: ‘Mr. Murray / Albemarle Street’.

MS in the possession of Sir John Murray.

[2 ]See below, p. 231, n. 2.

[3 ]‘Mr Murray, bookseller, in Albemarle-street, on his return to town from Stoke Newington over the fields, on Wednesday last, was assailed by two ruffians, who knocked him down, and robbed him of his money, but declined taking his watch.’ (Morning Post, Monday 12 June 1815.)