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238.: To DR. MAXWELL GARTHSHORE - 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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238.

To DR. MAXWELL GARTHSHORE1

  • Address: Dr Garthshore

MS., Kress Libr., Harvard University; Homer Vanderblue, Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations (Boston, 1936), 6.

My Dear Doctor

Our friend Mr Peter Maine2 has been advised to offer himself a candidate for the office of Overseer of the Kings works, which, he tells me, is vacant by the Death of Mr Thomas Tyers,2 who was bred a joiner, and who dyed last night. You and I both know what an ingenious Mechanick Maine is, and if this office could be procured for him, I have no doubt of his being better qualified for it than any joiner in Great Britain. I should write at more length, but am much indisposed. I ever am, My Dear Doctor

Most faithfully Yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]Maxwell Garthshore (1732–1812), physician; M.D. Edinburgh 1764; F.R.S.; published works on obstetrics.

[2 ]Not traced.