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220.: To [Unknown Correspondent] - 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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220.

To [Unknown Correspondent]

Caxton Head Catalogue: excerpt quoted, Scott 103.

[To a recommendation made to Adam Smith, when Commissioner of Customs of a person for the post of boatman, he replied that he refused to support him, for] he was a shortsighted land–lubber.1

[1 ]The applicant was John Greig, and the tide surveyor at Newburgh reported he was unfitted for the post; see Appendix D under correspondence of Aug.–Oct. 1782.