Abstract An autograph letter written and signed by Henry Charles Carey to "Mr. Blanchard," of the publishing firm of Lea and Blanchard, requesting that "a copy of my second & third volumes be forwarded to New York to Jones, and he will take the trouble of delivering it, which I suppose any of the book-sellers to whom you are sending books would do," dated March 18, 1847. Carey's Principles of Political Economy first appeared in three volumes (1837,...

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American economist, editor, and publisher Hezekiah Niles (1777-1839) wrote fifty-nine letters to his friend Irish publisher and economist Mathew Carey (1760-1839) between 1814 and 1833. The letters covered their concurrent publishing careers, contemporary politics, and the development of their economic theories.