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41.: To [ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL] - 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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41.

To [ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL]1

MS., SRO Buccleuch Collection GD224/377/9/1 p. 3; unpubl.

Glasgow, 24 Oct. 1759

Sir,

I am much obliged to you for the trouble you have taken in remembering so small an affair. I send you the account discharged.2 I made Mr Foulis copy it out of his books a second time as Mr Townshend may possibly have lost the copy I sent him. I am with great regard

Your most obedient humble Servant

Adam Smith

[1 ]Writer to the Signet: agent of the Buccleuch family.

[2 ]Account for £17–9–2 rendered by Robert and Andrew Foulis for books supplied for the Duke of Buccleuch. Smith settled the account on 29 Aug., the books reached the Duke on 17 Dec., and Charles Townshend instructed John Craigie of Kilgraston on 22 Dec. to pay the amount to Smith. The account bears a receipt to Craigie by Alexander Kincaid & Co., booksellers, on Smith’s orders. See Letter 39 addressed to Charles Townshend, dated 17 Sept. 1759, and Letter 44 addressed to Archibald Campbell, dated 9 Jan. 1760. The account lists the following books and prices:

Homeri Ilias 2 Vol. large folio21    
—Odyssea 2 Vol. large folio21    
Callimachus Gr. cum figuris folio    10    
Caesaris Opera folio    14    
Sophocles Gr. 4to    106
Aeschylus Gr. 4to    96
Plinij Epistolae & Panegyricus 4to    106
Theocritus Gr. 4to    66
Minucius Felix 4to    46
Homeri Ilias 2 Vol. Gr. 4to    12    
Caesaris Opera 4to    12    
Boetius de Consolatione Philosophiae    5    
Tyrtaeus Gr. Lat. 4to    3    
Demetrius Phalereus de Elocutione    4    
Terentij Comoediae, 8vo    39
Homeri Ilias Gr. Lat. 3 Vol. 8vo    89
Sophocles Gr. Lat. 2 Vol. 8vo    86
Aeschylus Gr. Lat. 2 Vol. 8vo    76
Theocritus Gr. Lat. 8vo    33
Minucius Felix 8vo    23
Aristophanis Nubes Gr. Lat. 8vo    23
Boetius de Consolatione, &c. 8vo    26
Antoninus Gr. Lat. 8vo 2 Vol.    5    
Plutarchus de Poetis audiendis Gr. Lat. 8vo    29
Euripidis Orestes Gr. Lat. 8vo    29
Aristoteles de Mundo Gr. Lat. 8vo    2    
Epictetus & Cebes Gr. Lat. 8vo large print    33
Anacreon Gr. large print, 8vo    2    
Theophrasti Characteres Gr. Lat. large print 8vo    23
Horatius, editio ultima 8vo    39
Virgilius, editio ult. 8vo    53
Sallustius 8vo    33
Lucretius 8vo    33
Paterculus 8vo    29
Tibullus & Propertius 8vo    3    
Poetae Latini minores 8vo    26
Iuvenalis & Persius 8vo    23
Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis 8vo    29
Phaedrus & P. Syrus 8vo    23
Thucydides de Peste Gr. Lat. 8vo    23
Plinij Epist. & Panegyr. 2 Vol. 12mo    5    
Tacitus 4 Vol. 12mo    10    
Hippocratis Aphorismi Gr. Lat. 12mo    18
Epictetus & Cebes Gr. Lat. 12mo    26
Pindari Opera 3 Vol. Gr. small size    5    
Ciceronis Opera 20 Vol. fine296

The list is instructive in representing the range of authors thought suitable for educating the young Duke, and for reflecting the stock of the Foulis brothers, both as booksellers and printers. Noticeable among their books on the list are the De elocutione of Demetrius Phalereus, which was the first Greek text published in Glasgow (1743), and the one submitted by the Robert Foulis when applying to be University Printer at Glasgow; the magnificent Homer folios of 1756–8, with the typefount specially designed by Alexander Wilson, and meticulously proof–read; and the ingenious miniature Pindar (1754–8), measuring only 3 ins. by 1·9 ins.