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125.: To JOHN DAVIDSON - 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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125.

To JOHN DAVIDSON

  • Address: To Mr John Davidson, Writer to the Signet, Castle Hill, Edinburgh, with a watch

MS., EUL La. ii. 191; Scott 267.

Dear Sir,

Your friend Cowan1 has not done justice to my Watch. Since I came to this side of the Water she runs down as fast as I wind her up; the latch, I suspect, is either much damaged or lost altogether. I suppose he had given her to some of his apprentices. I must now beg that he will take the trouble to look at her with some care himself. I ever am

My Dear Sir, Most faithfully and affectionately yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]Watchmaker in Edinburgh.