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137a.: ricardo to joseph hume2 - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 11 General Index [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. 11 General Index.

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

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137a.

ricardo to joseph hume2

My Dear Sir

It is with the greatest concern that I inform you I am obliged to go to London on Sunday next3 by the Gloucester Mail, and that on Saturday I am going to Gloucester to pass that day with a friend of mine to whom I had written to secure me a place in the Mail. I very much regret that I am again disappointed in not having the pleasure of seeing you here, particularly as Mrs. Ricardo and I would have been happy in the opportunity which your visit would have afforded us of becoming acquainted with Mrs. Hume. There appears to be a fatality attending our meeting in this part of the world,—I hope we shall become better acquainted in London. I am writing immediately after the receipt of your letter, but have some doubts whether I shall be in time for the Post

I am My dear Sir Yours very truly

David Ricardo

[2 ]Addressed: “Joseph Hume Esqr / Cheltenham”.—MS, International Autographs, New York, Cat. 15, 1964, item 292.

Joseph Hume (1777–1855), from 1818 M.P. for Aberdeen. At the time of this letter he had, at Mill’s suggestion, planned to bring his newly wedded wife to Gatcomb. On a previous occasion he had arrived there only to find the family away. (See above, VI, 158, 310, 313, 325.) He became later one of Ricardo’s chief allies in parliament.

[3 ]12 November.