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Rates of importation and exportation of Mr. Worsnam

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6 June 1615

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3

‘Verbum Sapienti’, by Sir William Petty

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1665?

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

(‘In Petty's list of his own writings … the entry “Verbum Sapienti, and the value of People” stands opposite the year 1665, and the internal evidence makes it probable that the booklet was written in the latter part of that year.’ (The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, ed. C. H. Hull (1899), vol. i.))

List of ships that arrived from India on 23 July 1674

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24 July 1674

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Some Reasons humbly offered to his most Excellent Majestie by the Corporation of Worsted weavers of Norwich and against the permitting any Flanders or french woolen manufacture to be comprehended in the Composition trade proposed by them

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c1680

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Manuscript of 'Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions touching the State and Condition of England' by Gregory King

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1696

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Manuscript entitled 'On Free Trade in Generalle', together with a complaint made by Sir R Holmes concerning goods landed on the Isle of Wight by the ship Prosperous

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late 17th cent,1678

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Manuscript of 'A speech upon the State of the Nation' by Andrew Fletcher

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1701

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Letter of Giambattista Vico to Padre Giacchi

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25 Nov 1725

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Letter from [Gilbert Elliot of Minto] to David Hume

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Feb 1750/1

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Criticizes Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion'

Letter from [Gilbert Elliot of Minto] to David Hume

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Mar 1751

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Further criticism of Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion'

Letter from David Hume to Adam Smith

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26 May 1753

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Jack's Land, Edinburgh. Commiserates regarding illness and discusses the work of the Long Parliament.

Letter from Adam Ferguson to Adam Smith

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14 Oct 1754

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Groningen. Discusses Mr Gordon and his advisers, ceremonials of the Dutch, subject of previous letter (undisclosed), request to be addressed without clerical titles "for I am a downright layman"

Letter from David Hume to Ronald Crawford

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3 May 1759

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Lisle Street, Leicester Field. Discusses business with Lord Hopton.

Letter from Victor de Riqueti to [Antoine de Sartine, Lieutenant de Police]

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Nov 1760

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Letter from William Mure to David Hume

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17 Apr 1765

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Caldwell. Discusses new taxes in the colonies, possibility of George Brown settling in the area.

Letter from Adam Ferguson to Adam Smith

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18 Apr 1776

Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

Edinburgh. Ferguson is reading AS's work and is complimentary but the work has provoked the Church, the University, the merchants and the militia, illness of Hume