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282.: To [WILLIAM ROBERTSON] - 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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282.

To [?WILLIAM ROBERTSON]

MS., NYPL Miscellaneous; Scott 305.

Reverend and Dear Sir

This letter is to introduce and to recommend to your attention three Spanish Gentlemen.

  • Collonel Francis Xavier Tyrry.
  • Dr John Andrew de Temes y Prado.
  • Don Francis Codon.

They are men of letters and are travelling for their instruction and improvement. Dr Temes is Rector of the University of Valladolid. They all speak french intelligibly. The Collonel even begins to make himself be understood in English. They are well informed men and their conversation will not be disagreable to you. You are, I imagine, by far the best modern linguist among us,1 and I, therefore, have taken the liberty to give you this trouble; which I hope, you will excuse. I ever am

Reverend and Dear Sir Most faithfully and affectionately yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]Possibly the researches Robertson carried out on original European sources for his History of Charles V (1769) and History of America (1777)—which involved study of Spanish documents—also his status as a clergyman and member of the Edinburgh literati, qualify him for consideration as the recipient of this letter.