Ricardo Letterbook

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ANGL 11
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full 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
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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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to University College London by Hutches Trower's widow in 1844.

Allied Materials

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.

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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

Archivist's note:
Source: National Register of Archives. Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
30 June 1999, revised Sep 2001