st agreeable to him
to take up.

EDINBURGH, _3rd Sept. 1751_.

DEAR SIR--I received yours this moment. I am very glad that
Mr. Craigie has at last resolved to go to Lisbon. I make no
doubt but he will soon receive all the benefit he expects or
can wish from the warmer climate. I shall, with great
pleasure, do what I can to relieve him of the burden of his
class. You mention natural jurisprudence and politics as the
parts of his lectures which it would be most agreeable for
me to take upon me to teach. I shall very willingly
undertake both. I shall be glad to know when he sets out for
Lisbon, because if it is not before the first of October I
would endeavour to see him before he goes, that I might
receive his advice about the plan I ought to follow. I would
pay great deference to it in everything, and would follow it
implicitly in this, as I shall consider myself as standing
in his place and representing him. If he goes before that
time I wish he would leave some directions for me, either
with you or with Mr. Leechman, were it only by word of
mouth.--I am, dear doctor, most faithfully yours,

ADAM SMITH.[27]

Smith would begin work at Glasgow on the 10th of October, and before
the middle of November he and Cullen were already deeply immersed in
quite a number of little schemes for the equipment of the College.
There was first of all the affair of the vacancy in the Moral
Philosophy chair, which was anticipated to occur immediately through
the death of Mr. Craigie--referred to in the following letter as "the
event we are afraid of." This vacancy Cullen and Smith were desirous
of seeing filled up by the translation of Smith from the Logic to the
Moral Philosophy chair, and the Principal (Dr. Neil Campbell) seems to
have concurred in that proposal, and to have mentioned Smith's name
with approbation to the Duke of Argyle, who, though without any power
over the appointment to any except the Crown chairs, took much
interest in, and was believed to exercise much influence over, the
appointment to all. This was the Duke Archibald--better known by his
earlier title of the Earl of Islay--who was often called the King of
Scotland, because he practically ruled the affairs of Scotland in the
first half of last century, very much as Dundas did in the second.
Smith seems to have gone through to Edinburgh to push his views with
th