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214.: To JAMES HUNTER BLAIR - 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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214.

To JAMES HUNTER BLAIR1

  • Address: James Hunter Blair Esqr, George’s Street, Edinburgh

MS., SRO Blairquhan Muniments; unpubl.

Dear Sir,

I am extremely sorry that it is [not] in my power to wait upon [you] at dinner today. I had all yesterday a very disagreable pain in my stomach, and in addition I have got this day a pain in my side. I am afraid an Election dinner2 is not the proper remedy for these complaints. I most sincerely congratulate you and ever am

Dear Sir Most faithfully Yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]James Hunter Blair (1741–87) of Dunsky, Wigtown; banker, partner of Sir William Forbes (see the latter’s Memoirs of a Banking–House, 1803); M.P. for Edinburgh 1781–4; Ld. Provost of Edinburgh 1784–6; noted for his extensive knowledge of the trade and manufactures of Scotland.

[2 ]Blair was elected M.P. the day the letter was written.