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198.: To [Unidentified Nobleman] - 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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198.

To [Unidentified Nobleman]

Lady Charnwood, An Autograph Collection, 120.

My Lord,

I am extremely sorry that all the copies of my Book that I ever was possessed of have been long ago given away, a single one excepted of each of the two editions1 which I am obliged to keep for my own use in order to mark the corrections or additions which I may hereafter have occasion to make. I should otherwise have been very happy to have presented one to your Lordship. I have the honour to be, with great respect,

My Lord, Your Lordship’s Most obedient and most humble Servant,

Adam Smith

[1 ]WN ed. 1, 1776; ed. 2, 1778.