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History of Financial Advice Collection. Edwin T. Freedley wrote a number of surveys of American business and how-to guides from the 1850s to 1880s, including The Legal Adviser (1857), and Home Comforts; or, Things Worth Knowing in Every Household (1878). His Practical Treatise on Business went through numerous editions (boasting 45,000 copies by the 1870s), and an abridged version was widely published in Britain. Like other success manuals that flourished in mid-nineteenth-century America, Freedley’s Practical Treatise was a rag-bag collection of inspiring quotations and extracts from articles written by other authors, woven together with some of his own platitudes.
Unlike other success manuals from the period, however, Freedley does include some more practical advice. He presents business as a way of getting rich comparatively quickly, if the right attitudes can be cultivated (industry, calculation, prudence and perseverance). More unusually, Freedley also includes a chapter on “How to Get Rich By Speculation” (written by a “Merchant of Boston”). This chapter does not condemn speculation out of hand as immoral or sacrilegious, but instead presents it as a legitimate, if risky, way to make money. Freedley observes that “the laws of speculation are not well understood; indeed, they may in part be considered not well established.” The chapter is therefore concerned with “laying down the necessary rules which ought to govern this great art.” In short, the method proposed is to buy when things are cheap (compared to historical averages), and sell when they are dear.
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