[21]Tytler’s Kames, i. p. 278.
[22]See Faujas Saint-Fond, Travels in England and Scotland, vol. ii. p. 241.
[23]See Garrick Correspondence, vol. ii. pp. 549, 550.
[24]See letter from Adam Smith to T. Cadell printed in the Economic Journal for September 1898. It appears that the last two books he had ordered were Postlethwait’s Dictionary of Trade and Anderson’s Deduction of the Origin of Commerce. Neither appears in Mr. Bonar’s catalogue of his library.
[25]At Kirkcaldy George Drysdale, for some time Provost of the town and afterwards Collector of Customs, was a “steady and much esteemed friend.” His more distinguished brother, Dr. John Drysdale the minister, had been at school with Smith, and “among all his numerous friends and acquaintances,” says Dalzel, there was none “whom he loved with greater affection or spoke of with greater tenderness.” They often met in Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh. The death of James Oswald, who represented Kirkcaldy, early in 1769, was a serious loss to the little society, and particularly to Smith.
[26]Steuart’s Political Economy, 1767.
[27]The most important of these (in Book IV. chap, vii.) appear for the first time in the third edition (1784).
[28]Letter to Cullen, London, 20th September 1774.
[29]Mr. Macpherson’s recent abridgment is the only tolerable one I know of, and that solely because it carefully retains many of the finest chapters, and leaves the flesh on the bones.
[30]A public pawnshop.