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289.: To DR. JAMES MENTEATH - 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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289.

To DR. JAMES MENTEATH

  • Address: The Revd, Dr James Stewart Menteath, Closeburn Castle, Dumfries Shire

MS., Gen. 1464/4; Scott 309.

My Dear James

David returned to me on Saturday the 2d instt. The first question I asked him was concerning your Son.1 He said, Your Son was wonderfully improved by Angiers instructions; but that after Angier had left him, he (David) thought he had fallen back a little. He said your Sons industry was prodigious; and that, as their rooms were adjoining, he heard your son every day practising Angiers lessons aloud, sometimes so early as five in the morning. I was excessively vexed at this intelligence and as soon as I could see Angier complained to him of it. He said the habit might not be compleatly confirmed; but that whenever he was in the same place with Mr Menteath he was willing to attend him without fee or reward. I received the inclosed letter from him this morning in confirmation of this. Angier was perfectly satisfied with the 43 guineas. I had not lain out of the money above half a minute when James Dundas2 repaid it. Ever yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]See Letters 281 and 284 addressed to Menteath, dated 16 Sept. 1788 and 2 Feb. 1789, also Letter 288 from Menteath, dated 20 Apr. 1789.

[2 ]Not traced.