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2.: To his Mother - 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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2.

To his Mother1

  • Address: To Mrs Smith at Kirkaldy2

MS., GUL Gen. 1464/6; unpubl.

[Oxford, 1740–6]

Dear Mother I have but just time to tell you that I am well. I received a letter from Mr Miller3 today but have not time to answer it. I shall have the Box you mention provided against next week. I have not yet received the money

A Smith

[1 ]Margaret Douglas Smith (1694–1784), dau. of Robert Douglas of Strathenry, M.P. for Fife in the Scottish Parliament 1703–6. She married Adam Smith, W.S., in 1720. After serving as private secretary to Hugh, Earl of Loudoun from 1705, he was made Clerk of the Courts Martial and Councils of War in Scotland (1707), then Comptroller of Customs at Kirkcaldy, a Fife seaport, from 1714. He died on 25 Jan. 1723. Adam Smith, the man of letters, was baptized on 5 June 1723.

[2 ]Place of Smith’s birth and early education. His mother continued to live there after the father’s death.

[3 ]Not traced.