Adam Smith: Two Letters to Henry Beaufoy, MP

David R Raynor

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1996, vol. 43, issue 5, 579-89

Abstract: This article prints two hitherto unknown letters by Adam Smith to Henry Beaufoy (1750-95), M.P. for Great Yarmouth, concerning legislation that Beaufoy and William Pitt had promoted. In the first letter (14 November 1786), Smith comments on changes to existing customs and excise regulations, and implicitly takes some credit for legislation concerning the herring fishery. In the second letter (29 January 1787), Smith expresses considerable pessimism about the philanthropic proposals of the British Fisheries Society to build fishing colleges in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Copyright 1996 by Scottish Economic Society.

Date: 1996
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