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1.: To WILLIAM SMITH1 - Adam Smith, Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 6 Correspondence of Adam Smith [1740]Edition used: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).
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To Carolyn
Preface
In 1965 the senior editor of this volume was invited by the Adam Smith Committee of Glasgow University to write a life of Smith. Professor Mossner saw that an indispensable preliminary was an edition of the correspondence, and he prevailed on the Committee to sponsor this project, also to ask the junior editor to collaborate with him. No complete collection of the correspondence was in print, though John Rae’s Life of Adam Smith (1895, reprinted 1965) and W. R. Scott’s Adam Smith as Student and Professor (1937) presented the letters known to the respective authors. A few other letters had appeared in periodicals. The lack of a collected edition is all the more surprising in that no extensive correspondence is involved. Our tabulation is as follows:
| from Smith (published): | 131 | | (unpublished): | 48 | | (missing): | 53 | | | 232 |
| to Smith (published): | 98 | | (unpublished): | 27 | | (missing): | 40 | | | 165 |
In view of these numbers, we decided to print Smith’s letters and those addressed to him whose contents provided significant information about Smith, or the lives of acquaintances in his career. The remainder of the letters to Smith have been calendared (Nos. 16, 62, 211, 255, 260, 279, and 285). Certain texts were not fully available to us: Letter 220 dated September 1782 (noted in a Caxton Head Catalogue); Letter 231 addressed to William Strahan, dated 6 October 1783 (sold at the Parke–Bernet Galleries, New York, on 22 October 1963); also Letter 257 addressed to Thomas Cadell, dated 14 March 1786 (sold at Sotheby’s on 27 October 1959). It is to be hoped that their owners will make them accessible to the scholarly world, also that the missing letters or some of them, at least, will be found.
To be sure, Adam Smith for the most part was a perfunctory, dilatory correspondent. When addressing him, David Hume could resort to bold remonstrance: ‘I can write as seldom and as short as you’ (Letter 90, January 1766); or, again, ‘I am as Lazy a Correspondent as you; yet my Anxiety about you makes me write’ (Letter 149, 8 February 1776). Another good friend, James Hutton, the vigorous extrovert geologist, affected to see in Smith’s absorption in his studies the characteristics of a Laputan: ‘I send you this flap in the ear to inform you that november is begun and there is little danger of frost till after the new year; so if you have anything to do with what is without you may conduct yourself accordingly; if it is otherwise and you are made up for sleep and vision, let me know when I should waken you again’ (Letter 301, undated).
Another difficulty about editing the correspondence is that Smith himself was not in favour of such enterprises, as he indicated clearly to William Strahan in connection with a proposal to bring out a volume of Hume’s letters: ‘Many things would be published not fit to see the light to the great mortification of all those who wish well to his memory’ (Letter 181, 2 December 1776). Such a feeling no doubt caused Smith to give instructions to his executors Joseph Black and James Hutton to commit his papers to the flames in the last week of his life.
Yet, if much has been irretrievably lost, and if some of what remains is brief, the range of correspondence published here reflects the preoccupations and activities of Smith’s life, and in opposition to his wish to veil private life, there can be quoted his statement in the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: ‘The smallest circumstances, the most minute transactions of a great man, are sought after with eagerness’ (Monday 17 January). We recall, too, the pleasure he took himself in knowing such details as that Milton wore latchets in his shoes (BLJ v. 19, n. 1). Among the many topics covered in the correspondence that go beyond the level of shoe latchets is the revision of the Theory of Moral Sentiments (Letter 40, and its enclosure), as well as source material for a part of The Wealth of Nations (Letters 115–20). On the biographical side, letters published here for the first time show Smith’s solicitude for a pupil (45–9), and solve a murder mystery (97–8). The appendices contain some printed letters addressed to Smith on matters of political economy, also documents associated with the American problem and the customs service.
Concerning the division of editorial responsibilities, Professor Mossner undertook to edit the letters from Smith, and the other editor dealt with letters to Smith. Sad to say ill health forced Professor Mossner to relinquish his share in the book in 1971, but he handed over accurate texts of the Smith letters and the basis for their annotation.
Acknowledgement is made here of the permission readily given by the Clarendon Press to quote from the notes to Hume’s letters to Smith printed in J. Y. T. Greig’s edition of The Letters of David Hume (1932, reprinted 1969), and in New Letters of David Hume, edited by Raymond Klibansky and Ernest C. Mossner (1954, reprinted 1969). A similar acknowledgement is made of permission from Glasgow University to quote from the notes to the Smith correspondence presented in W. R. Scott, Adam Smith as Student and Professor (Glasgow University Publications xlvi, 1937); from the University of Chicago Press and the Syndics of Cambridge University Press to draw facts and identifications from the notes to the Burke–Smith letters printed in the Burke Correspondence, edited by Thomas W. Copeland and others (from 1958).
Errors that remain in the text and notes are the responsibility of the junior editor, who wishes to pay every tribute of affection and respect to his colleague for his care in establishing sound principles for the edition, and for his patience and skill in solving knotty problems.
The format adopted for the edition required numbering and arranging each letter in chronological sequence, with the exception of No. 297 and following, these being letters whose dates are conjectural. After the number of each letter comes a brief citation of the address, when known, as well as the manuscript or printed source. The provenance and date of each letter are to be found in the top right–hand corner of the text, silently normalized to place, day, month, and year. Editors’ conjectures are placed within square brackets, and three dots indicate a cut by a previous editor, empty square brackets indicate a torn or otherwise damaged manuscript.
As for editorial rules, the original spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are all retained, except that in conformity with modern practice capitals are used after periods closing sentences, on the very rare occasions when writers do not observe this convention. Ampersands and contractions are expanded, except for contractions in signatures. The original accentuation of French words in the letters is preserved, except that the grave accent is normalized to the acute where modern practice requires this, as in Abbé. The guiding principle in all of this has been expressed by Dr. Johnson, who ‘did not take to’ Smith but would have hugged him for his love of rhyme: ‘An author’s language Sir, is a characteristical part of his composition, and is also characteristical of the age in which he writes. Besides, Sir, when the language is changed we are not sure that the sense is the same’ (BLJ iv. 315).
It is a pleasure to close this preface by recording the names of the institutions and people who gave us help. Research support was received from the Universities of Texas and British Columbia (1969, 1970), also the Canada Council (1969). The staff at the libraries of these Universities, also at Glasgow University Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the Scottish Record Office, were particularly helpful. Attention was drawn to important manuscript and printed sources by Mr. Edward Carson, librarian of H.M. Customs and Excise Department; Mr. C. P. Finlayson of Edinburgh University Library; Dr. J. D. Fleeman of Pembroke College, Oxford; Lady Edith Haden–Guest of Glasgow University; Dr. T. I. Rae of the National Library of Scotland; and the late Professor Jacob Viner of Princeton University. To the great advantage of the edition in terms of accuracy and clarity, the text and notes were carefully scrutinized by Professor D. D. Raphael of Imperial College, London, and Mr. Andrew S. Skinner, the efficient and knowledgeable secretary of the Adam Smith Committee.
Warm and special thanks go to Miss Moira McKeachie, who drove the editors across Scotland in 1965 when they first pursued Smith letters; to Mr. Antony Grinkus of Vancouver, who acted as research assistant to the project in 1971; to Professor David Stevens of Whitman College, who prepared Appendix B; to Mrs. Magda Chichini Pavitt for research help in 1973; to Miss Jane Douglas of Vancouver, who typed drafts of the edition; and to Mrs. Carolyn Mossner, whose good sense and good humour sustained the enterprise in difficult times.
I. S. R. Vancouver, British Columbia July 1974
Preface to Second Edition
This edition incorporates corrections to the text arising from advice from reviewers and correspondents, to whom we are much indebted. Further work on the handwriting of the letters and the information offered in notes is also included. Letter 105 has been replaced by a new version. In addition, the missing part of one letter (letter 78) and eighteen entirely new letters are presented in Appendix E. Of the new ones, fourteen come from the papers of the Second Earl Stanhope, now in the Kent County Archives. They were discovered in 1983 as a result of shrewd enquiries made by Dr. David Raynor, University of Ottawa, in connection with his own research on David Hume. Copies were made available to the editors by Professor D. D. Raphael, Imperial College, London, who followed up a lead given to him by Dr. Raynor. We are most grateful to them for providing the texts of the Stanhope letters and commenting on the notes. We are also very grateful to our Japanese colleagues, Professor Yoshiaki Sudo, Keio University, Yokohama, and Professor Hisashi Shinohara, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, for tracing Adam Smith letters in their country and helping with annotation. We acknowledge with our thanks the permission to publish the new letters readily given by Edinburgh University Library; Kwansei Gakuin University; Kent Archives Office, Maidstone; the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland; Glasgow University Library; and Professor H. C. Recktenwald, Friedrich–Alexander–Universität, Erlangen–Nürnberg.
12 November 1985 I. S. R.
Acknowledgements
For permission to publish letters in this volume, acknowledgement is gratefully made to the following individuals and institutions: James Abbey, Esq., Edinburgh; Messrs. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford; the Bentham Committee, University College, London; Sir James Hunter Blair of Blairquhan; the Trustees of the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Trustees of the Boston Public Library (items in the Mellen Chamberlain Collection and the Virginia and Richard Ehrlich Autograph Collection); the British Library Board (now vested with ownership of the former Library Departments of the British Museum); Columbia University Library (Seligman Collection); Earl Fitzwilliam and Earl Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estates Company, also the City Librarian, Sheffield: Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments; Edinburgh University Library; Harvard University Library: Houghton Library and the Vanderblue Collection of Smithiana, Kress Library of Business and Economics; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California; Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, Somerville, New Jersey: Mary and Donald F. Hyde Collection; the Most Hon. the Marquess of Lansdowne; Lehigh University Library: Honeyman Collection; Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, Los Angeles: Mr. Roy Crocker, President; the Hon. Mrs. John Mildmay–White and her Trustees, Baring Brothers & Co. Ltd., London; the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland: Manuscript Department and Mrs. P. G. C. Somervell Deposit; New York Public Library: Manuscript Division and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection; Mr. M. Nitta, Managing Director, Yushudo Booksellers Ltd., Tokyo; the James M. and Marie–Louise Osborn Collection, Yale University Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City; the Royal Society of Edinburgh; the Scottish Record Office; the Syndics of Cambridge University Press; the Rt. Hon. Viscount Thurso of Ulbster; University of Illinois Library; University of London: Goldsmith Library; University of Michigan: William L. Clements Library; University of Tokyo; the Editorial Committee of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; and Yale University Library.
Abbreviations(i) Smith’s Works| Corr. | Correspondence |
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| EPS | Essays on Philosophical Subjects (which include) | | Ancient Logics | ‘History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics’ | | Ancient Physics | ‘History of the Ancient Physics’ | | Astronomy | ‘History of Astronomy’ | | English and Italian Verses | ‘Of the Affinity between certain English and Italian Verses’ | | External Senses | ‘Of the External Senses’ | | Imitative Arts | ‘Of the Nature of the Imitation which takes place in what are called the Imitative Arts’ | | Music, Dancing, and Poetry | ‘Of the Affinity between Music, Dancing, and Poetry’ | | Stewart | Dugald Stewart, ‘Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D.’ | | LJ (A) | Lectures on Jurisprudence (Lothian version) | | LJ (B) | Lectures on Jurisprudence (Cannan version) | | LRBL | Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres | | TMS | The Theory of Moral Sentiments | | WN | The Wealth of Nations | (ii) Other Works, Institutions, etc.| Bentham Corr. | The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, ed. Timothy L. S. Sprigge et al. University of London: Athlone Press, 1968– | | BLJ | Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. G. Birkbeck Hill, revsd. and enlgd. by L. F. Powell, 6 vols. Oxford, 1934–65 | | BM | British Museum | | Bonar | James Bonar, A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith, 2nd edn. London, 1932 | | Burke Corr. | The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, ed. Thomas W. Copeland et al., Cambridge University Press and Chicago University Press, 1958– | | Brougham | Henry Peter Brougham, Lives of Men of Letters and Science . . . in the time of George III, 2 vols. London, 1845–6 | | Carlyle | The Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk 1722–1805, ed. John Hill Burton, new edn. Edinburgh, 1910 | | DNB | Dictionary of National Biography | | EUL | Edinburgh University Library | | Fay | C. R. Fay, Adam Smith and the Scotland of His Day, Cambridge University Press, 1956 | | Fraser, Scotts of Buccleuch | Sir William Fraser, The Scotts of Buccleuch, 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1878 | | Geo. III Corr. | The Correspondence of George III 1760–1783, ed. Sir John Fortescue, 6 vols. London, 1927–8 | | GUA | Glasgow University Archives | | GUL | Glasgow University Library | | Hamilton | Henry Hamilton, An Economic History of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford, 1963 | | HL | The Letters of David Hume, ed. J. Y. T. Greig, 2 vols. Oxford, 1932 | | HP | The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke, 3 vols. H.M.S.O., 1964 | | Hume, Phil. Wks. | The Philosophical Works of David Hume, ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 4 vols. London, 1874–5 | | Mizuta | Hiroshi Mizuta, Adam Smith’s Library: A Supplement to Bonar’s Catalogue with a Check–list of the whole Library, Cambridge University Press, 1967 | | NHL | New Letters of David Hume, ed. Raymond Klibansky and Ernest C. Mossner, Oxford, 1954 | | NLS | National Library of Scotland | | NYPL | New York Public Library | | Rae | John Rae, Life of Adam Smith, London, 1895 (reprinted Augustus M. Kelley, New York, 1965, with an Introduction ‘Guide to Rae’s “Life of Smith” ’ by Jacob Viner) | | Ramsay of Ochtertyre | Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century from the MSS. of John Ramsay, Esq. of Ochtertyre, ed. Alexander Allardyce, 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1888 | | RSE | Royal Society of Edinburgh | | Scott | W. R. Scott, Adam Smith as Student and Professor, Glasgow University Publications, xlvi, 1937 | | Sinclair, Corr. | The Correspondence of . . . Sir John Sinclair, 2 vols. Edinburgh 1831 | | Small | John Small, ‘Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson’, RSE Transactions xxiii (1864), 599–665 | | SRO | Scottish Record Office, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh | | Thomson | John Thomson, Life, Lectures and Writings of William Cullen, vol. i, Edinburgh, 1832 | | Walpole, Corr. | The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, ed. W. S. Lewis et al., Yale Edition, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1937– | Life and Works of Adam Smith| 1720 | Adam Smith Sr. md. Margaret Douglas of Strathenry | | | 1723 | c. 25 Jan. Adam Smith Sr. died; 5 June, Adam Smith baptized in Kirkcaldy | | | c.1732–7 | attended Kirkcaldy Burgh School | | | 1737–40 | attended Glasgow University; taught by Francis Hutcheson; grad. M.A. with distinction | | | 1740–6 | at Balliol College, Oxford, as Snell Exhibitioner (£40 p.a.); matric. 7 July 1740; nominated to Warner Exhibition (£8. 5s. p.a.) 2 Nov. 1742; visited Adderbury on holidays, home of John 2nd Duke of Argyll; left Balliol c. 15 Aug. 1746; resigned Snell Exhibition 4 Feb. 1749 | | | 1746–8 | lived with his mother in Kirkcaldy | | | 1748–51 | lectured at Edinburgh on rhetoric and belles lettres, also jurisprudence, under the patronage of Henry Home of Kames, James Oswald of Dunnikier, and Robert Craigie of Glendoick | | | 1751 | 9 Jan. elected Professor of Logic at Glasgow; admitted 16 Jan. then went back to Edinburgh to complete lecture course; from Oct. taught logic at Glasgow, also jurisprudence and politics. | | | 1752 | 22 Apr. elected Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow; became member of the Glasgow Literary Society, also Philosophical Society, Edinburgh | | | 1754 | member of the Select Society, Edinburgh | | | 1755 | lectured on economic ideas to a Club organized by Andrew Cochrane, Provost of Glasgow | articles in Edinburgh Review: ‘A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson’ (No. 1, 1 Jan.–1 July 1755); ‘A Letter to the Authors of the Edinburgh Review’ (No. 2, July 1755–Jan. 1756) | | 1758 | Quaestor for Glasgow University Library, served until 1760 | | | 1759 | visited Inveraray, home of Archibald 3rd Duke of Argyll | TMS ed. 1 | | 1760 | chosen Dean of Arts, served until 1763; summer jaunt for health reasons to England; visited the home of Lord Shelburne at High Wycombe | | | 1761 | Vice–rector of Glasgow University, served until 1763; in London on University business, late Aug.–early Oct. | ‘Considerations concerning the First Formation of Languages, and the Different Genius of Original and Compounded Languages,’ The Philological Miscellany i (1761) 440–79 | | | | TMS ed. 2 | | 1762 | 3 May made a Burgess of Glasgow; 21 Oct. nominated Glasgow LL.D. | | | 1763 | 8 Nov. gave notice of resignation of his Chair; resigned 14 Feb. 1764, from Paris | | | 1764 | Jan. left Glasgow for London, en route to France as travelling tutor to Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch; arrived in Paris 13 Feb. and remained ten days, then left for Toulouse; joined there by the Duke’s brother, the Hon. Hew Campbell Scott | | | 1765 | in Toulouse until Oct., at work on an early draft of WN; toured the south of France October; in Geneva Nov.–Dec. and met Voltaire; went on to Paris | | | 1766 | In Paris Jan.–Oct., on friendly terms with the La Rochefoucauld circle, Mme de Boufflers, the philosophes, and the Quesnai circle; 19 Oct. Hon. Hew Campbell Scott died of fever; Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch returned to England, landing at Dover on 1 Nov.; Smith was given a pension of £300 p.a. for life from the Buccleuch estates | | | 1766 | Nov.–Mar. 1767 in London: assisted Charles Townshend with taxation projects; carried out research on the history of colonies for Lord Shelburne; elected Fellow of the Royal Society 21 May (admitted 27 May 1773) | | | 1767 | | TMS ed. 3 | | | May–Apr. 1773 lived in Kirkcaldy with his mother, working on WN; made a Burgess of Edinburgh, June 1770 | | | 1773 | May–Apr. 1776 in London, working on WN; elected member of The Club which Joshua Reynolds had founded as a forum for Dr. Johnson | | | 1774 | | TMS ed. 4 | | 1776 | 9 Mar. publication of WN; May–Dec. in Kirkcaldy, visited Hume in Edinburgh during his last illness | WN | | 1777 | Jan.–beginning of Oct. in London | ‘Letter to Strahan’ (9 Nov. 1776) on the death of Hume, Scots Magazine xxxi (Jan. 1777), 5–7 | | | Oct.–Jan. 1778 in Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh | ? composed ‘Thoughts on the State of the Contest with America’ | | 1778 | 30 Jan. gazetted Commissioner of Customs for Scotland (£500 p.a.) and of Salt Duties (£100 p.a.); settled in Panmure House, Canongate, Edinburgh, with his mother and as housekeeper his cousin Janet Douglas; adopted as his heir David Douglas (later Lord Reston), a nephew’s son; resumed membership of the Poker Club; gave Sunday suppers for friends among the literati and distinguished visitors | WN ed. 2 (early in the year) | | 1781 | | TMS ed. 5 | | 1782 | in London, attended dinners of The Club; returned to Scotland early in July | | | 1783 | founder member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; served as one of the presidents of its literary class | | | 1784 | Apr. accompanied Edmund Burke to Glasgow for his installation as Lord Rector of the University; his mother died on 23 May | WN ed. 3 (‘Additions and Corrections’ to eds. 1 and 2 were printed separately) | | 1786 | | WN ed. 4 | | 1787 | Mar.–Aug. in London, probably for health reasons; said to have been consulted by the Government of Pitt the Younger; 15 Nov. elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, and served until 1789 | | | 1788 | sometime after Sept. Janet Douglas died | | | 1789 | | WN ed. 5 | | 1790 | May 17 July, Adam Smith died in Panmure House; buried in the Canongate kirkyard | TMS ed. 6 (revised and enlarged) | | | Posthumous Publications | | | 1795 | EPS, ed. Joseph Black and James Hutton | | | 1896 | LJ (B), ed. Edwin Cannan | | | 1933 | ‘Smiths Thoughts on the State of the Contest with America, February 1778’, ed. G. H. Guttridge, American Historical Review xxxviii. 714–20 | | | 1963 | LRBL, ed. John M. Lothian | | | 1977 | LJ (A), ed. Ronald Meek, D. D. Raphael, and Peter Stein | |
List of Letters| No. | Date | Provenance | Correspondent | Page |
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| 1 | 24 Aug. 1740 | Oxford | to William Smith | 1 | | 2 | [1740–6] | Oxford | to his mother | 1 | | 3 | 23 Oct. 1741 | Adderbury | to his mother | 2 | | 4 | 12 May [? 1742] | Oxford | to his mother | 2 | | 5 | 29 Nov. 1743 | Oxford | to his mother | 3 | | 6 | 2 July 1744 | Oxford | to his mother | 3 | | 7 | 4 Feb. 1748–9 | Edinburgh | to [Dr. Theophilus Leigh] | 3 | | 8 | 10 Jan. 1751 | Edinburgh | to [Robert Simson] | 4 | | 9 | 3 Sept. 1751 | Edinburgh | to William Cullen | 4 | | 10 | Nov. 1751 | Edinburgh | to William Cullen | 5 | | 11 | 19 Jan. 1752 (N.S.) | Glasgow | to James Oswald | 6 | | 12 | 24 Sept. 1752 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 8 | | 13 | 26 May 1753 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 9 | | 14 | 27 Feb. 1754 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 10 | | 15 | 20 Mar. [1754] | Oxford | from Alexander Wedderburn | 11 | | 16 | 27 Aug. 1754 | Alloa | from Adam Smith, Collector of Customs | 13 | | 17 | Oct. 1754 | Groningen | from Adam Ferguson | 13 | | 18 | 1 Dec. 1754 | Leipzig | from Adam Ferguson | 14 | | 19 | 17 Dec. 1754 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 16 | | 20 | 9 Jan. 1755 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 17 | | 21 | [14 Feb. 1755] | Glasgow | to [Dr. George Stone] | 18 | | 22 | Feb.–Mar.? 1757 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 19 | | 23 | 7 Sept. 1757 | Glasgow | to [Gilbert Elliot] | 21 | | 24 | Oct. 1757 | Glasgow | to [Lord Milton] | 22 | | 25 | 8 June 1758 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 24 | | 26 | 19 Aug. 1758 | Glasgow | to William Johnstone | 25 | | 27 | 14 Nov. 1758 | London | from Gilbert Elliot | 26 | | 28 | 21 Feb. 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Fitzmaurice | 28 | | 29 | 10 Mar. 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 29 | | 30 | 4 Apr. 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 30 | | 31 | 12 Apr. 1759 | London | from David Hume | 33 | | 32 | 26 Apr. 1759 | Dublin | from Lord Shelburne | 36 | | 33 | 26 Apr. 1759 | London | from Andrew Millar | 39 | | 34 | 14 June [1759] | Edinburgh | from William Robertson | 40 | | 35 | 23 July 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 41 | | 36 | 28 July 1759 | London | from David Hume | 42 | | 37 | 31 Aug. 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 44 | | 38 | 10 Sept. 1759 | Westminster | from Edmund Burke | 46 | | 39 | 17 Sept. 1759 | Glasgow | to Charles Townshend | 47 | | 40 | 10 Oct. 1759 | Glasgow | to [Gilbert Elliot] | 48 | | 41 | 24 Oct. 1759 | Glasgow | to [Archibald Campbell] | 57 | | 42 | 29 Oct. 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 58 | | 43 | 3 Dec. 1759 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 60 | | 44 | 9 Jan. 1760 | Glasgow | to [Archibald Campbell] | 62 | | 45 | 10 Mar. 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 62 | | 46 | 12 Mar. 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 64 | | 47 | [? 13] Mar. 1760 | Glasgow | to Andrew Stuart | 65 | | 48 | 17 Mar. 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 66 | | 49 | 19 Mar. 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 66 | | 50 | 4 Apr. 1760 | Glasgow | to William Strahan | 67 | | 51 | 15 July 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 69 | | 52 | 11 Nov. 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 71 | | 53 | 18 Nov. 1760 | Glasgow | to Lord Shelburne | 72 | | 54 | 30 Dec. 1760 | Glasgow | to William Strahan | 73 | | 55 | 6 June 1761 | St. Andrews | from Lord Cardross (later 11th Earl of Buchan) | 75 | | 56 | 24 June 1761 | Edinburgh | from Robert Cullen | 76 | | 57 | 29 June 1761 | Ninewells | from David Hume | 77 | | 58 | 15 July 1761 | Glasgow | from Dr. William Leechman | 77 | | 59 | 27 Oct. 1761 | London | from Lord Erroll | 78 | | 60 | 2 Nov. 1761 | Glasgow | to Joshua Sharpe | 79 | | 61 | 5 Nov. 1761 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 79 | | 62 | 12 Nov. 1761 | London | from David Lyle | 80 | | 63 | 4 Jan. 1762 | Dunlop | from Thomas Wallace | 81 | | 64 | 26 Feb. 1762 | Oxford | from Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice | 81 | | 65 | 9 Mar. 1762 | Glasgow | to William Johnstone | 84 | | 66 | 9 Apr. 1762 | Glasgow | to Sir Gilbert Elliot, (Lord Minto) | 85 | | 67 | 15 June 1762 | Glasgow | to Joshua Sharpe | 85 | | 68 | 8 July 1762 | Slains Castle | from Lord Erroll | 87 | | 69 | 7 Feb. 1763 | Glasgow | to George Baird | 87 | | 70 | 22 Feb. 1763 | Glasgow | to David Hume | 89 | | 71 | 28 Mar. 1763 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 89 | | 72 | 21 July 1763 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 90 | | 73 | 9 Aug. 1763 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 91 | | 74 | 11 Sept. 1763 | Aberdeen | from Henry Herbert (later, Lord Porchester) | 91 | | 75 | 13 Sept. 1763 | London | from David Hume | 92 | | 76 | 25 Oct. 1763 | Adderbury | from Charles Townshend | 95 | | 77 | 28 Oct. 1763 | Fontainebleau | from David Hume | 96 | | 78 | 12 Dec. 1763 | Glasgow | to David Hume | 98 | | 79 | 23 Jan. 1764 | Glasgow | from Joseph Black | 98 | | 80 | 2 Feb. 1764 | Glasgow | from John Millar | 99 | | 81 | 14 Feb. 1764 | Paris | to Thomas Miller | 100 | | 82 | 5 July 1764 | Toulouse | to David Hume | 101 | | 83 | 21 Oct. 1764 | Toulouse | to David Hume | 102 | | 84 | 4 Nov. 1764 | Toulouse | to David Hume | 103 | | 85 | 5 Nov. 1764 | Glasgow | from John Glassford | 104 | | 86 | [Aug. 1765] | [? Toulouse] | to David Hume | 105 | | 87 | 5 Sept. 1765 | Paris | from David Hume | 106 | | 88 | [? Sept.] 1765 | [? Toulouse] | to David Hume | 107 | | 89 | 10–11 Dec. 1765 | Ferney | from Mme Marie Louise Denis | 109 | | 90 | [Jan.] 1766 | [London] | from David Hume | 110 | | 91 | 18 Feb. 1766 | | from le Gr[and] Vic[aire] Eccossois | 111 | | 92 | 13 Mar. 1766 | Paris | to David Hume | 112 | | 93 | 6 July 1766 | Paris | to David Hume | 112 | | 94 | 26 Aug. 1766 | Compiègne | to Charles Townshend | 114 | | 95 | 27 Aug. 1766 | Compiègne | to [Charles Townshend] | 116 | | 96 | [Aug.] 1766 | [London] | from David Hume | 117 | | 97 | 15 Oct. 1766 | Paris | to Lady Frances Scott | 119 | | 98 | 19 Oct. 1766 | Paris | to Lady Frances Scott | 121 | | 99 | [autumn] 1766 | Paris | to Andrew Millar | 121 | | 100 | [winter] 1766–67 | London | to William Strahan | 122 | | 101 | 12 Feb. 1767 | London | to Lord Shelburne | 122 | | 102 | 25 Mar. [1767] | London | to Thomas Cadell | 124 | | 103 | 7 June 1767 | Kirkcaldy | to David Hume | 125 | | 104 | 13 June 1767 | London | from David Hume | 126 | | 105 | 23 June 1767 | London | from [Count de Sarsfield] | 127 | | 106 | 26 June 1767 | Kirkcaldy | to John Craigie | 130 | | 107 | 14 July 1767 | London | from David Hume | 130 | | 108 | 30 Aug. 1767 | Kirkcaldy | to [William Strahan] | 131 | | 109 | 13 Sept. 1767 | Edinburgh | to David Hume | 131 | | 110 | [end of Sept. 1767] | London | from David Hume | 133 | | 111 | 8 Oct. 1767 | London | from David Hume | 133 | | 112 | 17 Oct. 1767 | London | from David Hume | 136 | | 113 | 27 Jan. 1768 | Kirkcaldy | to Lord Shelburne | 137 | | 114 | 25 Dec. 1768 | Kirkcaldy | to Archibald Campbell | 138 | | 115 | 15 Jan. 1769 | Kirkcaldy | to Lord Hailes | 139 | | 116 | 5 Mar. 1769 | Kirkcaldy | to Lord Hailes | 141 | | 117 | 6 Mar. 1769 | Edinburgh | from Lord Hailes | 143 | | 118 | 12 Mar. 1769 | Kirkcaldy | to Lord Hailes | 151 | | 119 | 16 May 1769 | Kirkcaldy | to Lord Hailes | 152 | | 120 | 23 May 1769 | Kirkcaldy | to Lord Hailes | 154 | | 121 | 20 Aug. 1769 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 155 | | 122 | 28 Aug. 1769 | Edinburgh | from James Boswell | 156 | | 123 | 6 Feb. 1770 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 156 | | 124 | [Feb. 1770] | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 158 | | 125 | 11 Mar. 1771 | Kirkcaldy | to John Davidson | 158 | | 126 | 7 June 1771 | Paris | from Count de Sarsfield | 159 | | 127 | 26 July 1771 | Kirkcaldy | to John Spottiswoode | 159 | | 128 | [autumn 1771] | Kirkcaldy | to John Davidson | 160 | | 129 | 28 Jan. 1772 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 160 | | 130 | [Feb.? 1772] | [? Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy] | to Mme de Boufflers | 161 | | 131 | 27 June 1772 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 161 | | 132 | 3 Sept. 1772 | Kirkcaldy | to William Pulteney | 163 | | 133 | [Oct. 1772] | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 164 | | 134 | 23 Nov. 1772 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 166 | | 135 | 24 Feb. 1773 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 166 | | 136 | 10 Apr. 1773 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 167 | | 137 | 16 Apr. 1773 | Edinburgh | to David Hume | 168 | | 138 | 2 Sept. 1773 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 169 | | 139 | 23 Jan. 1774 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 169 | | 140 | 13 Feb. 1774 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 171 | | 141 | 11 Mar. 1774 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 172 | | 142 | 1 June 1774 | Geneva | from Adam Ferguson | 172 | | 143 | 20 Sept. 1774 | London | to William Cullen | 173 | | 144 | 25 Feb. 1774 | Geneva | from Patrick Clason | 179 | | 145 | 1 May 1775 | Westminster | from Edmund Burke | 180 | | 146 | 9 May 1775 | London | to David Hume | 181 | | 147 | 1 Nov. 1775 | Bo’ness | from Dr. John Roebuck | 182 | | 148 | 13 Dec. 1775 | [London] | to Henry Dundas | 184 | | 149 | 8 Feb. 1776 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 185 | | 150 | 1 Apr. 1776 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 186 | | 151 | 3 Apr. [1776] | Edinburgh | from Hugh Blair | 187 | | 152 | [Apr. 1776] | [Edinburgh] | from Joseph Black | 190 | | 153 | 8 Apr. 1776 | North Murchiston | from William Robertson | 192 | | 154 | 18 Apr. 1776 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 193 | | 155 | Apr. 1776 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 194 | | 156 | 3 May 1776 | London | from David Hume | 194 | | 157 | 3 May 1776 | London | from David Hume | 195 | | 158 | 3 June 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to [William Strahan] | 196 | | 159 | 6 June 1776 | [? London] | from Alexander Wedderburn | 197 | | 160 | 10 June 1776 | London | from William Strahan | 199 | | 161 | 16 June 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to David Hume | 201 | | 162 | 6 July 1776 | Edinburgh | to [William Strahan] | 202 | | 163 | 14 Aug. 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to Alexander Wedderburn | 203 | | 164 | 14 Aug. 1776 | Edinburgh | from Joseph Black | 204 | | 165 | 15 Aug. 1776 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 205 | | 166 | 22 Aug. 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to David Hume | 206 | | 167 | 22 Aug. 1776 | Edinburgh | from Joseph Black | 207 | | 168 | 23 Aug. 1776 | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 208 | | 169 | 26 Aug. 1776 | Edinburgh | from Joseph Black | 208 | | 170 | 31 Aug. 1776 | Edinburgh | to John Home of Ninewells | 209 | | 171 | 2 Sept. 1776 | Edinburgh | from John Home of Ninewells | 210 | | 172 | 5 Sept. 1776 | Edinburgh | to William Strahan | 210 | | 173 | 16 Sept. 1776 | Southampton | from William Strahan | 212 | | 174 | 25 Sept. 1776 | Richmond | A Letter from Governor Pownall | 213 | | 175 | 7 Oct. 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to [John Home of Ninewells] | 214 | | 176 | 14 Oct. 1776 | Ninewells | from John Home of Ninewells | 214 | | 177 | [Oct.] 1776 | [Kirkcaldy] | to [William Strahan] | 216 | | 178 | 9 Nov. 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to William Strahan | 217 | | 179 | 13 Nov. 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to William Strahan | 221 | | 180 | 26 Nov. 1776 | London | from William Strahan | 222 | | 181 | 2 Dec. 1776 | Kirkcaldy | to William Strahan | 223 | | 182 | 19 Jan. 1777 | London | to Governor Pownall | 224 | | 183 | 12 Apr. 1777 | Edinburgh | from Adam Ferguson | 225 | | 184 | 27 Oct. 1777 | Kirkcaldy | to William Strahan | 226 | | 185 | 30 Oct. 1777 | [London] | from Alexander Wedderburn | 226 | | 186 | 7 Nov. 1777 | Westminster | from Sir Grey Cooper | 227 | | 187 | 26 Nov. 1777 | London | from Edward Gibbon | 228 | | 188 | 20 Dec. 1777 | Edinburgh | to William Strahan | 229 | | 189 | 1777 | A Letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of . . . David Hume, Esq. ‘By One of the People called Christians’ | | 230 | | | | | [the Revd. George Horne] | | | 190 | 14 Jan. 1778 | Kirkcaldy | to William Strahan | 230 | | 191 | 21 Jan. 1778 | Kirkcaldy | to John Spottiswoode | 231 | | 192 | 5 Feb. 1778 | Edinburgh | to William Strahan | 232 | | 193 | 5 Feb. 1778 | Edinburgh | to [? Sir Grey Cooper] | 232 | | 194 | 3 Mar. 1778 | Verteuil | from Le Duc de La Rochefoucauld | 233 | | 195 | 16 Nov. 1778 | Edinburgh | to Lord Kames | 234 | | 196 | 24 Nov. 1778 | Edinburgh | to John Sinclair of Ulbster | 235 | | 197 | 28 Nov. 1778 | Kensington Gore | from [John Macpherson] | 236 | | 198 | Jan. 1779 | Edinburgh | to [unidentified nobleman] | 237 | | 199 | 6 Aug. 1779 | Verteuil | from Le Duc de La Rochefoucauld | 238 | | 200 | 30 Oct. 1779 | Melville | from Henry Dundas | 239 | | 201 | 1 Nov. 1779 | Edinburgh | to [Henry Dundas] | 240 | | 202 | 8 Nov. 1779 | Edinburgh | to [Lord Carlisle] | 242 | | 203 | 3 Jan. 1780 | Edinburgh | to [William Eden] | 244 | | 204 | 23 May 1780 | Edinburgh | to Henry Mackenzie | 246 | | 205 | 5 July 1780 | Edinburgh | to John Davidson | 247 | | 206 | 25 Oct. [1780] | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 247 | | 207 | 26 Oct. 1780 | Edinburgh | to [William Strahan] | 248 | | 208 | [26 Oct. 1780] | [Edinburgh] | to [Andreas Holt] | 249 | | 209 | [26 Oct. 1780] | [Edinburgh] | to Peter Anker | 253 | | 210 | 26 Nov. 1780 | Bath | from the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch | 254 | | 211 | 30 Nov. 1780 | Calcutta | from Samuel Charters | 254 | | 212 | 1780 | Edinburgh | to Thomas Cadell | 255 | | 213 | 18 June 1781 | [Ostend] | from [Count de Sarsfield] | 255 | | 214 | 29 Oct. 1781 | Edinburgh | to James Hunter Blair | 256 | | 215 | 7 June 1782 | Edinburgh | from Henry Mackenzie | 257 | | 216 | 1 July 1782 | London | to Edmund Burke | 258 | | 217 | 6 July 1782 | London | to Edmund Burke | 259 | | 218 | 23 July 1782 | Edinburgh | to Abbé Blavet | 259 | | 219 | 21 Aug. 1782 | Edinburgh | to Charles Mackinnon of Mackinnon | 260 | | 220 | Sept. 1782 | | to [unknown correspondent] | 261 | | 221 | 14 Oct. 1782 | Edinburgh | to John Sinclair of Ulbster | 262 | | 222 | 7 Dec. 1782 | Edinburgh | to Thomas Cadell | 263 | | 223 | 12 Dec. 1782 | London | from Thomas Cadell | 264 | | 224 | 25 Feb. 1783 | [Edinburgh] | to John Davidson | 264 | | 225 | 17 Mar. 1783 | Edinburgh | to Lady Frances Scott | 265 | | 226 | 15 Apr. 1783 | Edinburgh | to Edmund Burke | 265 | | 227 | 22 May 1783 | Edinburgh | to William Strahan | 266 | | 228 | 2 June 1783 | Edinburgh | to [Sir Grey Cooper] | 266 | | 229 | 19 June 1783 | Edinburgh | to [Edward Gibbon] | 267 | | 230 | 20 June 1783 | London | from Edmund Burke | 268 | | 231 | 6 Oct. 1783 | Edinburgh | to [William Strahan] | 269 | | 232 | 20 Nov. 1783 | Edinburgh | to [William Strahan] | 270 | | 233 | 15 Dec. 1783 | Edinburgh | to William Eden | 271 | | 234 | 18 Dec. 1783 | London | from George Dempster | 272 | | 235 | 1783 | Edinburgh | to [? William Eden] | 273 | | 236 | 7 May [1784] | Edinburgh | to John Davidson | 274 | | 237 | 10 June 1784 | Edinburgh | to William Strahan | 275 | | 238 | 18 June 1784 | [Edinburgh] | to Dr. Maxwell Garthshore | 276 | | 239 | 19 June 1784 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 276 | | 240 | 10 Aug. 1784 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 278 | | 241 | 16 Nov. 1784 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 279 | | 242 | 18 Nov. 1784 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 279 | | 243 | 22 Feb. 1785 | Edinburgh | to James Menteath | 280 | | 244 | 21 Apr. 1785 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 281 | | 245 | 24 Aug. 1785 | Highclere | from Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester | 282 | | 246 | 11 Sept. 1785 | Miramichi, New Brunswick | from Robert Reid | 283 | | 247 | 29 Sept. 1785 | Edinburgh | to Andrew Strahan | 285 | | 248 | 1 Nov. 1785 | Edinburgh | to Le Duc de La Rochefoucauld | 286 | | 249 | 10 Nov. 1785 | Edinburgh | to George Chalmers | 287 | | 250 | 3 Dec. 1785 | [Edinburgh] | to George Chalmers | 289 | | 251 | 22 Dec. 1785 | Edinburgh | to [George Chalmers] | 289 | | 252 | 3 Jan. 1786 | Edinburgh | to [George Chalmers] | 290 | | 253 | 30 Jan. 1786 | Edinburgh | to John Sinclair of Ulbster | 291 | | 254 | 4 Feb. 1786 | [Edinburgh] | to Fraser Tytler | 292 | | 255 | 5 Feb. 1786 | London | from Buccleuch Sharp | 292 | | 256 | 13 Feb. 1786 | Edinburgh | to Andrew Strahan | 293 | | 257 | 14 Mar. 1786 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 293 | | 258 | 11 Apr. 1786 | Edinburgh | to [Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster] | 294 | | 259 | 1 May 1786 | Edinburgh | to Abbé Morellet | 295 | | 260 | 2 May 1786 | Gosport | from Sir Charles Douglas | 296 | | 261 | 7 May 1786 | Edinburgh | to Thomas Cadell | 296 | | 262 | 3 Oct. 1786 | Edinburgh | to John Bruce | 296 | | 263 | 7 Dec. 1786 | Beconsfield | from Edmund Burke | 297 | | 264 | 13 Dec. 1786 | Edinburgh | to Lt. Col. Alexander Ross | 299 | | 265 | 20 Dec. 1786 | Beconsfield | from Edmund Burke | 300 | | 266 | 6 Mar. 1787 | Edinburgh | to [Bishop John Douglas] | 301 | | 267 | 21 Mar. 1787 | London | from Henry Dundas | 302 | | 268 | Mar. 1787 | Crichoff, White Russia | from Jeremy Bentham | 303 | | 269 | 9 May 1787 | London | to Joseph Black | 303 | | 270 | 13 June 1787 | London | to Lt. Col. Alexander Ross | 303 | | 271 | 8 July 1787 | Edinburgh | from Bishop John Geddes | 305 | | 272 | 18 July 1787 | London | to Henry Dundas | 306 | | 273 | 20 Aug. 1787 | London | from John Logan | 307 | | 274 | 16 Nov. 1787 | Edinburgh | to Dr. Archibald Davidson | 308 | | 275 | 18 Dec. 1787 | Edinburgh | to Sir Joseph Banks | 309 | | 276 | 15 Mar. 1788 | Edinburgh | to Thomas Cadell | 310 | | 277 | 19 June 1788 | Paris | from Pierre–Samuel Dupont de Nemours | 311 | | 278 | 16 July 1788 | Edinburgh | to Dr. Archibald Davidson | 313 | | 279 | 19 Aug. 1788 | Greenock | from George Cunningham | 314 | | 280 | 1 Sept. 1788 | Edinburgh | to Henry Dundas | 314 | | 281 | 16 Sept. 1788 | Edinburgh | to Dr. James Menteath | 315 | | 282 | 11 Oct. 1788 | Edinburgh | to [? William Robertson] | 316 | | 283 | 10 Dec. 1788 | Edinburgh | to Edward Gibbon | 316 | | 284 | 2 Feb. 1789 | Edinburgh | to Dr. James Menteath | 317 | | 285 | 20 Feb. 1789 | Gosport | from Mrs. L. M. Bingham | 318 | | 286 | 25 Mar. 1789 | Edinburgh | to [Henry Dundas] | 318 | | 287 | 31 Mar. 1789 | Edinburgh | to Thomas Cadell | 319 | | 288 | 20 Apr. 1789 | Closeburn Castle | from Dr. James Menteath | 320 | | 289 | 9 May 1789 | Edinburgh | to Dr. James Menteath | 321 | | 290 | [18 Sept. 1789] | Edinburgh | to Sir William Forbes | 322 | | 291 | 21 Jan. 1790 | Edinburgh | to David Douglas | 322 | | 292 | 9 Feb. 1790 | Edinburgh | to Robert Cullen | 323 | | 293 | 24 Feb. 1790 | London | from the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch | 323 | | 294 | 16 May 1790 | Edinburgh | to [Thomas Cadell] | 324 | | 295 | 25 May 1790 | Edinburgh | to Thomas Cadell | 325 | | 296 | 1790 | | from Jeremy Bentham | 325 | | 297 | [1752–63] | Glasgow | to William Johnstone | 326 | | 298 | 7 Sept. [? 1780] | Edinburgh | to John Bruce | 326 | | 299 | [ ] | [ ] | to Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster | 327 | | 300 | 3 June [ ] | Edinburgh | from David Hume | 327 | | 301 | Nov. [ ] | Edinburgh | from James Hutton | 327 | | 302 | [? end of Oct. / end of Dec. 1766] | [ ] | from [Charles Townshend] | 328 | | 303 | [late 1784, or after] | [Edinburgh] | to Thomas Wharton | 334 | | 304 | [? late Jan.–Apr. 1751] | [Glasgow] | from [William Cullen] | 334 | | a. | 12 Dec. 1763 | Glasgow | to David Hume | | | [b. | 17 Nov. 1772 | Edinburgh | from David Hume] | | | c. | 24 June 1775 | London | to Lord Stanhope | | | d. | 29 Mar. 1777 | London | to Lord Stanhope | | | e. | 2 Apr. 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | f. | 5 Apr. 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | g. | 7 Apr. 1777 | London | from | James Chalmer | | g.(i) | 6 Apr. 1774 | Paris | from | Lord Stanhope to Adam Ferguson | | h. | 8 Apr. 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | i. | 19 Apr. 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | j. | 29 Apr. 1777 | | from | Alexander Wedderburn | | k. | 30 Apr. 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | l. | 8 May 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | m. | 14 May 1777 | London | to | Lord Mahon | | n. | 24 May 1777 | London | to | Lord Stanhope | | o. | 14 June 1777 | London | to | Lady Stanhope | | p. | 23 Sept. 1788 | Edinburgh | to | Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester | | q. | [6 May 1789] | [Dover] | from | Dugald Stewart | | r. | 21 Jan. 1790 | Edinburgh | to | Hon. Henry Herbert | | s. | [ ] | [Edinburgh] | to | John Maclaurin |
1.
To WILLIAM SMITH
- Address: To William Smith, at the Duke of Argyles house in Brutin Street, London
MS., GUL Gen. 1035/126; Scott 232. Oxford, 24 Aug. 1740 Sir
I yesterday receiv’d your letter with a bill of sixteen pounds inclos’d, for which I humbly thank you, but more for the good advice you were pleased to give me: I am indeed affraid that my expences at college must necessarily amount to a much greater sum this year than at any time hereafter; because of the extraordinary and most extravagant fees we are obligd to pay the College and University on our admittance; it will be his own fault if anyone should endanger his health at Oxford by excessive Study, our only business here being to go to prayers twice a day, and to lecture twice a week. I am, dear Sir
Your most Oblig’d ServantAdam Smith
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