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110.: From 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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110.

From DAVID HUME

MS., RSE ii. 42; HL ii. 163.

Dear Smith,

I thank you for your friendly Resentment against the Right Reverend,1 I easily forgive our Friend for not making me any Apology. Tis with great Concern I observe, that he has not Spirits enough for such an Effort, and perhaps is fetterd by some kind of Dependance on his Brute of a Brother. I have receivd two Letters from him in our usual friendly Style and have answered him in the same. Yours

D. H.

[1 ]See Letter 109 addressed to Hume, dated 13 Sept. 1767. ‘Our friend’ is James Oswald who was a sick man by this time. He resigned from Parliament in 1768 and retired from public life.