Discussing a variety of economic issues in a series of autograph letters, signed 20 February 1835 - 30 June 1840, from Columbia College, New York, to the British economist Nassau William Senior.
4to and 8vo. 12 pages, approximately 1000 words. Folded; two with traces of mounting on blank verso of integral leaf. Very good. Among the subjects discussed by McVickar are a meeting with Harriet Martineau; one of Senior's books ("may I venture in passing to suggest your definitions sometimes struck me..... More