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305.: ricardo to place2 - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 8 Letters 1819-June 1821 [1819]

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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. 8 Letters 1819-1821.

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

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305.

ricardo to place2

Dear Sir

Mr. Davies3 mentioned to me the project of a review, wherein might be freely discussed those principles of reform which are so much out of favour with our other reviews. Of Mr. Mill’s talents for managing such a concern no one has a higher opinion than myself, and I should be glad to contribute by my subscription towards such an undertaking.1

I am Dear Sir Yours very truly

David Ricardo

[2 ]MS in British Museum (Place Papers), Add. 37,949, fol. 74.

[3 ]Not identified: possibly Col. T. H. Davies, M.P. for Worcester.

[1 ]‘The need of a Radical organ to make head against the Edinburgh and Quarterly (then in the period of their greatest reputation and influence), had been a topic of conversation between him [James Mill] and Mr. Bentham many years earlier [before the foundation of the Westminster Review in 1824], and it had been a part of their Château en Espagne that my father should be the editor; but the idea had never assumed any practical shape.’ (J. S. Mill, Autobiography, p. 91.)