BIB_ID
137225
Accession number
MA 1272.40
Creator
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Display Date
1772 Sept. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
The salutation reads "My Dearest Pulteney."
Volume 15 (MA 1272) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1272.1-57).
Volume 15 (MA 1272) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Referring to the upcoming publication of The Wealth of Nations; saying "In the Book which I am now preparing for the press I have treated fully and distinctly of every part of the subject which you have recommended to me; and I intended to have sent you some extracts from it; but upon looking them over, I find that they are too much interwoven with other parts of the work to be easily separated from it. I have the same opinion of Sir James Stewarts Book that you have. Without once mentioning it, I flatter myself, that every false principle in it, will meet with a clear and distinct confutation in mine;" thanking him for recommending him to the Directors of the East India Company with regard to issues related to currency problems facing the Company; saying "By what Mr. Stewart and Mr. Ferguson hinted to me concerning your notion of the proper remedy for the disorders of the coin in Bengal, I believe our opinions upon that subject are perfectly the same. My book would have been ready for the Press by the beginning of this winter; but the interruptions occasioned partly by bad health arising from want of amusement and from thinking too much upon one thing; and partly by the avocations above mentioned will oblige me to retard its publication for a few months longer."
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