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5.: To his Mother - 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).

Part of: The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 7 vols.

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5.

To his Mother

Brougham, ii. 216; Rae 25.

I am just recovered of a violent fit of laziness, which has confined me to my elbow–chair these three months.1

[1 ]Only an excerpt from this letter seems to have survived.