RICARDO, David.

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Autograph letter signed to Hutches Trower. An unpublished letter from Ricardo to his frequent correspondent Hutches Trower, discussing a range of subjects relating to economics and politics.The Ricardo-Trower Letters are at the University College Library, London, having been given to it in the 19th century. They were published in 1899, edited by Bonar & Hollander. This "lost" letter is known from Trower's response to it on 25 May 1823 and from the opening of Trower's letter to Ricardo of 20 July 1823: "But alas! A whole season has passed since I had the pleasure of hearing from You; for your last letter is dated 24 April!!!".The letter is addressed to Trower's home in Godalming and re-addressed in another hand to his mother's home in Clapton. Ricardo discusses the first operational gas works in the country, Irish affairs and the ministry ("are not cohering very firmly to each other"), Robert Peel and Charles Williams Wynn, the intemperate behaviour of George Canning towards Henry Brougham ("he is deficient in one of the most essential requisites of first minister"), Trower's brother's views on the directors of the Bank of England, his own paper on the Bank Charter, and radical doctrines on Parliamentary Reform and the fallacies of Canning's arguments."Unlike the other main correspondents of Ricardo, Trower has no claim to literary fame in his own right; he is only remembered because of this correspondence. He was, like Ricardo, a stockbroker and their friendship had been form

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