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303.: To THOMAS WHARTON - 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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303.

To THOMAS WHARTON1

  • Address: Mr Wharton, Commissioner of Excise, Laurieston

MS., inserted in copy of vol. i of WN ed. 3 (1784), Quaritch Catalogue 937 (1974), p. 74; Faculty of Economics Libr., Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan; unpubl.

My Dear Sir

Though nothing can be more tempting than the company you propose I should dine with to–morrow; yet the state of my health, the coldness of the weather, and my fear of bringing back some of my old complaints; by venturing to dine at so great a distance, oblige me to beg you would excuse me. It is a great mortification to me; but necessity must be submitted to. Remember me most respectfully to Lady Sophia and ever believe me

My Dear Sir most affectionately Yours

Adam Smith

[1 ]Thomas Wharton, Commissioner of Excise for Scotland, 1771–1809.