2. Arthur Dobbs, Adam Smith and Walpole’s Excise Scheme
The writer is Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765), M.P. for Carrickfergus, later Governor of North Carolina, and a lifelong believer in the North-West Passage. The letter is in the Walpole Papers. (Cambridge University Library by courtesy of the Marquis of Cholmondeley), but the Memorandum to which it relates...
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1961
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