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ricardo to wright1 - 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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ricardo to wright1

Sir

The speech on Mr. Western’s motion2 of which you wish to have a correct copy for the Parliamentary Debates contained a great many remarks on Mr. Western’s pamphlet,3 which besides being in my opinion very attackable on its own merits, was at variance with the frequently declared opinions of that gentleman. As I have not that pamphlet here I cannot refer to it, nor is it perhaps desirable that all those remarks should be published. I will look over the newspaper reports, and will, within the time you mention, send them back either with the printed report corrected, or with the speech written out as far as I can recollect it.

I am Sir Your obedt. servant

David Ricardo

[1 ]Addressed: ‘J. Wright Esqr / 112 Regent Street / London.— MS in Sotheby’s sale of books 4 Nov. 1969, part of lot 274.

This letter is in reply to one (printed above, V, xxx) from John Wright, editor of Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, who had asked for a transcript of Ricardo’s speech on Western’s motion of 10 July 1823.

[2 ]Above, V, 309–21.

[3 ]Second Address to the Landowners..., by C. C. Western, 1822. See above, V, 317 & n. and cp. 522–8.