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]]> United States--Politics and government--1775-1783]]> Association copies (Provenance). rbprov]]> Bookplates (Provenance). rbprov]]> Consolatory thoughts on American independence : shewing the great advantages that will arise from it to the manufactures, the agriculture, and commercial interest of Britain and Ireland : Published for the benefit of the Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh / by a Merchant. Edinburgh : Printed by James Donaldson, 1782.

Signed at end: T. True Briton.

"Attributed to 'Tod of Kirtland' in the article on Thomas Somerville in the Dictionary of National Biography."--Sabin.

"Price one shilling"

Rockefeller Library copy inscribed: "From the Orphan Hospital To Baron Stewart Moncrieffe" on half-title.

Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.

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