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342.: place to ricardo1[Answered by 343] - 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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342.

place to ricardo1
[Answered by 343]

Dear Sir

Looking at Dr. Hamiltons book last night for another purpose I met with a passage in which the Dr. shows that there cannot [be]2 a S. F. from taxes,3 I had some desire to send it to you but I was restrained from apprehension of being too officious—so I mentioned it this morning to Mr. Mill and at his desire it is now sent.

[1 ]MS in British Museum (Place Papers), Add. 27,836, fol. 112. This is a draft in Place’s handwriting.

[2 ]Omitted in MS.

[3 ]An Inquiry concerning the Rise and Progress...of the National Debt, 3rd ed., Edinburgh, 1818, probably pp. 46–50.