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326.: ricardo to place1 - 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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326.

ricardo to place1

Dear Sir

Accept my thanks for the books you have sent me.2 I have not yet had time to look over them. I fear I shall not be able to accomplish the task I have undertaken. I hope Mr. Napier does not depend on me.

In great haste Yrs. very truly

David Ricardo

[1 ]Addressed: ‘F. Place Esqre. / Charing Cross / London’. Place notes on the MS: ‘This relates to an article for the Encyclopedia Britannica’.

MS in British Museum (Place Papers), Add. 37,949, fols. 76–7.

[2 ]See above, p. 66.