This volume is a collection of personal correspondence and first-person recollections that focus on Ricardo's life outside of his political economic endeavors. These missives concern the aspects of Ricardo's life that surround his character, his amiable and generous nature, his successful business dealings, and his personal relationships.
It includes a memoir written by one of his brothers that sheds light about his family, his formative youth, and his education. There are chapters on his entrance into the stock market as a mere teenager and records of his meteoric climb within the financial community to an extremely successful station.
The entire series includes:
Volume 1: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Volume 2: Notes on Malthuss Principles of Political Economy
Volume 3: Pamphlets and Papers 1809-1811
Volume 4: Pamphlets and Papers 1815-1823
Volume 5: Speeches and Evidence
Volume 6: Letters 1810-1815
Volume 7: Letters 1816-1818
Volume 8: Letters 1819-1821
Volume 9: Letters 1821-1823
Volume 10: Biographical Miscellany
Volume 11: General Index
Preface ix
A MEMOIR OF DAVID RICARDO,
by one of his Brothers 1
Note on the Authorship of the Memoir 14
ADDENDA TO THE MEMOIR
I. Introductory 16
II. The Family of Abraham Ricardo 17
III. The Delvalle Family 26
IV. Ricardo’s Childhood and Education 29
V. Independence and Marriage 36
VI. The Wilkinsons 43
Three Notes
Where Ricardo lived in London 46
A Note on Clubs and Societies 49
A Note on Portraits 51
A Family Who’s Who
I. David Ricardo’s Brothers and Sisters 54
II. Ricardo’s Children 61
RICARDO IN BUSINESS
I. As a Jobber on the Stock Exchange 67
II. As Loan Contractor 75
III. A Canard 91
IV. Investments and Estates 95
V. Ricardo’s Will 104
A SELECTION OF FAMILY AND
PRIVATE LETTERS
I. Early Letters to J. H. Wilkinson 1091. Brighton, 10 September 1795 109
2. [Brighton, 20 September 1795] 111
3. [London, 17 September 1798] 113
4. Stock Exchange, 29 November 1802 113
5. Mile End, [1 December 1802] 114
6. Upper Brook Street, 31 March 1815 115
Other Correspondence with J. H. Wilkinson 117
II. ‘Ricardo’s Letter to the Old Doctor’,
12 September 1803 119
III. The Fraud of 5 May 1803 (A letter of 1806) 123
IV. The Loan of 1807 (Two letters of 1808) 125
V. Jacob Ricardo 129
VI. Two Sisters Decline a Present
Esther and Sarah Ricardo to David Ricardo 133
VII. A Visit to Cambridge, 24 October 1812 136
VIII. A Letter to a Wine Merchant [1815] 141
IX. The Cumberland Affair 143
1. S. Cumberland to Ricardo, 22 Jan. 1816 144
2. S. Cumberland to Ricardo, 27 Jan. 1816 145
3. G. Cumberland to Ricardo, 28 Jan. 1816 146
4. Ricardo to G. Cumberland, 30 Jan. 1816 147
5. G. Cumberland to Ricardo, 2 Feb. 1816 150
6. Ricardo to G. Cumberland, 4 Feb. 1816 156
X. A Servant and Two Masters 159
Sheppard to Ricardo, 21 December 1816 160
Ricardo to Sheppard, 25 December 1816 160
XI. Fanny’s Marriage 161
E. Austin Sen. to Ricardo, 30 November 1818 162
Ricardo to E. Austin Sen., 5 December 1818 163
XII. Ricardo to Miss Mary Ann, 20 April 1822 164
From Maria Edgeworth’s Letters to her Family
1. Gatcomb Park, 9 November 1821 167
2. Gatcomb Park, 10 November 1821 169
3. Gatcomb Park, 12 November 1821 170
4. London, 9 March 1822 172
JOURNAL OF A TOUR ON THE
CONTINENT, 1822
Introductory Note to the Journal 177
I. London to Brussels 181
II. Brussels to The Hague 191
III. The Hague to Amsterdam 199
IV. Amsterdam to Coblentz 210
V. Coblentz to Carlsruhe 219
VI. Carlsruhe to Zurich 230
VII. Zurich to Meyringen 243
VIII. Meyringen to Lausanne 253
IX. Geneva 264
X. Geneva, Chamouny, Coppet 268
XI. Geneva to Domodossola 280
XII. Domodossola to Verona 291
XIII. Verona to Florence 304
XIV. Florence to Genoa 316
XV. Genoa to Turin 329
XVI. Turin to Paris 339
XVII. Paris 348
APPENDICES
(A.) Bibliography of Ricardo’s Works 355
(B.) A Survey of Ricardo Manuscripts 386
(C.) Commonplace Books 393
(D.) Ricardo’s Library 399
Supplement to Volume I. New Evidence on the Sub-division
of Chapter VIII of the ‘Principles’ 1817 403
Supplement to Volume IV. Notes on ‘A Reply to Mr. Say’s
Letters to Mr. Malthus’ 1820 405
Corrections to the First Printing of the Previous Volumes 411
Index of Persons and Places in Volume X 413
ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLE
Mrs David Ricardo, circa 1820, from the miniature by
Thomas Heaphy facing page x
Loans for Great Britain and Ireland, 1805–1820 (Table)
following page 80
Ricardo’s circular to the subscribers on his list for the
Loan of 1819 87
Autograph of Ricardo’s earliest extant letter (to J. H.
Wilkinson, 10 September 1795) following page 108
Four cancelled pages from the Principles, 1817
following page 404