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62.: From DAVID LYLE - 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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62.

From DAVID LYLE1

  • Address: To Mr Professor Smith in the University of Glasgow

MS., GUL Gen. 1035/143; unpubl.

[He has missed seeing Smith in London and wishes to have a place at the Board of Works. When he gets one, he will present his ‘new mathematical instruments’ to the King. He asks Smith to write a covering letter to the 2nd Earl of Shelburne to accompany a gift of ‘Volume Compasses’. He comments on the elder Pitts’ resignation as Prime Minister, Oct. 1761, as that of ‘too great and too violent a man to be a servant to a young King of our sovereign’s disposition’.]

[1 ]? David Lyle, Glasgow M.A. 1755; possibly the man described in DNB as a stenographer and author of The Art of Shorthand Improved (1762).