Groningen. Discusses Mr Gordon and his advisers, ceremonials of the Dutch, subject of previous letter (undisclosed), request to be addressed without clerical titles "for I am a downright layman"
Hopes to be able to reply to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners before 25th, reading Adam Smith and Ricardo in preperation for being appointed Registrar
Edinburgh. Ferguson is reading AS's work and is complimentary but the work has provoked the Church, the University, the merchants and the militia, illness of Hume
Jack's Land, Edinburgh. Commiserates regarding illness and discusses the work of the Long Parliament.
3 Belford Park, Edinburgh. Dated 5 June, 1923 - Sends him a cutting of an article about Adam Smith from 'The Scotsman' June 2, 1923 [transcribed].
3 Belford Park, Edinburgh - Sends him a cutting of an article about Adam Smith from 'The Scotsman' June 2, 1923.
Sends condolences on the death of Angelo Sraffa; comments on Hume's veracity and the rarity of Hume's Abstract [of a treatise on human nature]; is writing a review of W. R. Scott's Adam Smith. Is worried about the Ricardo edition, which he sees as reaching a point of crisis.
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