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MS ANGL - Manuscripts in English

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS ANGL/11
Title	Ricardo Letterbook
Date	1813-1823
Description	Fifty-two letters, 1813-1823, from David Ricardo to Hutches Trower concerning economics.
Extent	1 volume containing 52 letters
AdminHistory	Born 1772 to a Jewish family in Holland, Ricardo settled in England early in life and became a successful member of the stock exchange. Educated in England and Holland, he was employed in his father's business at the age of fourteen. After his marriage, he set up in business for himself and was highly successful. Influenced by Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' and becoming interested in economics, he was the 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.
Acquisition	Presented to University College London by Hutches Trower's widow in 1844.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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.
FindingAids	Dorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNote	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.

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