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492a.: ricardo to thomas booth3 - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 11 General Index [1810]Edition used: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.
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492a.ricardo to thomas booth3London 28 March 1822 SirI am very much obliged to you for the frank communication of your sentiments respecting the probability of success, if I were disposed to listen to Mr. Hodgson’s suggestion of becoming a candidate to represent in Parliament the town of Liverpool.1 With your means of information I cannot have the least doubt that the opinion you have formed is a correct one. If I were well disposed to enter into so fearful a contest, your letter would make me pause and hesitate, as on the whole it does not hold out much promise of success; but since I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Hodgson I have given the subject the most serious consideration, the result of which is that I must give up all thoughts of commencing a contest for which I am so unfit. I should be sacrificing my peace of mind for a considerable time for an object which I should not probably after all attain. I should be exchanging a seat of comparatively little trouble for one which would require constant attention, if I were to succeed. It is true that I should have the honour, which I know how to value, of representing a very important place, but I doubt whether I could be altogether as useful in my humble line, fettered as I should be by the particular views and opinions of my constituents, as I am now. The reflection that Mr. Hodgson and a few of his friends thought so favourably of me as to be willing to give me their aid in elevating me to the rank of a representative of Liverpool will always be a source of satisfaction to me. I remain Sir Your obedt. and humble ServtDavid Ricardo [3 ]Addressed: ‘Thomas Booth Esqre / Foxteth Lodge / near / Liverpool’. [1 ]See Ricardo’s letter to David Hodgson, declining the invitation to stand for Liverpool, above, IX, 182. |
