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262.: To JOHN BRUCE - 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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262.

To JOHN BRUCE

  • Address: John Bruce Esq, chez Mons. de la Serriere, Rue des Fossez St Jacques, à Paris

MS., SRO Hamilton Bruce 104/71; Scott 299–30.

My Dear John

After begging your pardon for having so long delayed writing to you, at last I send you the letter I promised you to Professor Meiner.1 My mortal aversion to letters of compliment and ceremony has been the principal cause of the delay. Remember me most affectionately to your Pupil2 and believe, with the greatest love and regard

My Dear John Most faithfully and sincerely yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]? J.W. Meiner (1723–89), Rector of Langen–Salz, Thuringia, a polyglot linguist; or ? Christoph Meiners (1747–1810), Göttingen professor, prolific writer on the philosophy and history of religion.

[2 ]Robert Saunders Dundas; see Letter 259, addressed to the Abbé Morellet, dated 1 May 1786, n. 2.