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236.: To JOHN DAVIDSON - 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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236.

To JOHN DAVIDSON

MS., EUL (now missing); Rae 392.

My Lord Stonefield1 is an old attached and faithful friend of A. Stuart. The papers relative to the County of Lanark may safely be communicated to him. He is perfectly convinced of the propriety of what you and I agreed upon, that the subject2 ought to be talked of as little as possible, and never but among his most intimate and cordial friends.

A. Smith

[1 ]John Campbell of Stonefield (d. 1801); advocate 1748; Session Court Judge, 1762; Lord Commissioner of Justiciary, 1787 (resigned 1792); brother–in–law of Lord Bute.

[2 ]At the General Election of 1784, Stuart withdrew his candidature over some difference with the Duke of Hamilton. The day before withdrawing he sent the whole correspondence with the Duke concerning this matter to John Davidson, for the perusal of his Edinburgh friends: ‘There is particularly one friend, Mr. Adam Smith, whom I wish to be fully informed of everything’.