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60.: To JOSHUA SHARPE - Adam Smith, Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 6 Correspondence of Adam Smith [1740]

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Correspondence of Adam Smith, ed. E. C. Mossner and I. S. Ross, vol. VI of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987).

Part of: The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 7 vols.

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60.

To JOSHUA SHARPE1

MS., Houghton Libr., Harvard, Eng. 870 (57) 124; unpubl.

Dear Sir

I am desired by the University to beg of you to consult Mr Wedderburn about the propriety of pushing a separate agreement with the Lessee in the way that I talked of to you, and to take his advice about every part of the future management of that affair. I shall write to Oxford to press the Agreement with Baliol College. I ever am

Dear Sir Your most humble Servant

Adam Smith

[1 ]London solicitor with a Chancery practice; he dealt with Glasgow University business, in particular, the long–standing dispute with Balliol College about the Snell Exhibitions: see Scott 156, 161–3.