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78.: To DAVID HUME - 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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78.

To DAVID HUME

Fraser, Scotts of Buccleuch, ii. 403; Rae 168–9.

My Dear Hume,

The day before I received your last letter1 I had the honour of a letter from Charles Townshend,2 renewing in the most obliging manner his former proposal that I should travel with the Duke of Buccleugh, and informing me that his Grace was to leave Eton at Christmas, and would go abroad very soon after that. I accepted the proposal, but at the same time expressed to Mr Townshend the difficulties I should have in leaving the University before the beginning of April, and begged to know if my attendance upon his Grace would be necessary before that time. I have yet received no answer to that letter,3 which, I suppose, is owing to this, that his Grace is not yet come from Eton, and that nothing is yet settled with regard to the time of his going abroad. I delayed answering your letter till I should be able to inform you at what time I should have the pleasure of seeing you. . . .4 I ever am, my dearest friend, most faithfully yours,

Adam Smith

[1 ]Letter 77, dated 28 Oct. 1763.

[2 ]Letter 76, dated 25 Oct. 1763.

[3 ]Not traced.

[4 ]See New Letter a.