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65.: To WILLIAM JOHNSTONE - 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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65.

To WILLIAM JOHNSTONE

  • Address: To William Johnstone Esqr, Advocate, Edinburgh

MS., Pierpont Morgan Libr., New York; unpubl.

Dear Johnstoune

This Letter will be delivered to you by Mr Trail1 who has been sent in from the College to consult your sage headpiece with regard to a point of Law along with Lockart.2 He has also directions to take a private advice from you with regard to a point which is not to be communicated to any other Person whatever. You will find him an excessive clever fellow, I therefor recommend him to you as an acquaintance as well as a client. Remember me respectfully to Mrs Johnstoune3 and believe me most faithfully yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]Robert Trail (d. 1775), Professor of Divinity at Glasgow.

[2 ]Alexander Lockhart (1701–82); advocate 1772; Dean of Faculty 1764; Lord of Session, as Lord Covington, 1775; for many years he was the leader of the Scottish Bar, noted for his torrent of eloquence as a pleader.

[3 ]William Johnstone md. 10 Nov. 1760 Frances (d. 1782), dau. and heiress of Daniel Pulteney (1st cousin of William Pulteney, Earl of Bath).