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Letter to Timothy Fuller
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“I had begun Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith (1723–1790)
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“I had begun "Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 3o Dec 1822
Explicit first-person statement 'I had begun "Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it'.