IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ANGL 11
Held at: University College London
Title: Ricardo Letterbook
Date(s): 1813-1823
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 52 letters
Name of creator(s): Ricardo | David | 1772-1823 | economist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1772; son of a Jew born in Holland, who settled in England early in life and became a successful member of the stock exchange; educated in England and Holland; employed in his father's business at the age of fourteen; after his marriage, set up in business for himself and was highly successful; influenced by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and became interested in economics; author of a number of influential pamphlets and a leading authority on economic questions; a close friend of both Malthus and John Stuart Mill; a radical, he served as MP for Portarlington, Ireland; died, 1823.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Fifty-two letters, 1813-1823, from David Ricardo to Hutches Trower concerning economics.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Green leather binding with stamped decoration.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to University College London by Hutches Trower's widow in 1844.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Correspondence and papers of Ricardo are also held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science; British Library, Manuscript Collections; Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives; Cambridge University, Trinity College Library; University of Illinois Library, Chicago, USA. Papers of Hutches Trower are held at the Surrey History Centre. For further details see the National Register of Archives.
Publication note:
Published in James Bonar and J H Hollander, Letters of David Ricardo to Hutches Trower (Oxford, 1899). Ricardo's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography states that some of these published letters were held privately.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Source: National Register of Archives. Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: 30 June 1999, revised Sep 2001