n to be in mourning.
Everybody here remembers you with the greatest admiration
and affection, and nothing that concerns you is indifferent
to them, and there are more people who sympathise with you
than you are aware of. It would be the greatest pedantry to
offer any topics of consolation to you who are naturally so
firm and so manly. As your Brother dyed in the service of
his country, you have the best and the noblest consolation:
That since it has pleased God to deprive you of the
satisfaction you might have expected from the continuance of
his life, it has at least been so ordered that y^e manner of
his death does you honour.

You left Scotland so much sooner than you proposed, when I
had the pleasure of seeing you at Glasgow, that I had not an
opportunity of making you a visit at Dalkieth (_sic_), as I
intended, before you should return to London.

I sent about a fortnight ago the books which you ordered for
the Duke of Buccleugh to Mr. Campbell at Edinburgh.[117] I
paid for them, according to your orders, as soon as they
were ready. I send you enclosed a list of them, with the
prices discharged on the back. You will compare with the
books when they arrive. Mr. Campbell will further them to
London. I should have wrote to you of this a fortnight ago,
but my natural dilatoriness prevented me.--I ever am, with
the greatest esteem and regard, your most obliged and most
obedient humble servant,

ADAM SMITH.

COLLEGE OF GLASGOW,
_17th September 1759._

The second edition of the _Theory_, which Hume was anticipating
immediately in 1759, did not appear till 1761, and it contained none
of the alterations or additions he expected; but the _Dissertation on
the Origin of Languages_ was for the first time published along with
it. The reason for the omission of the other additions is difficult to
discover, for the author had not only prepared them, but gone the
length of placing them in the printer's hands in 1760, as appears from
the following letter. They did not appear either in the third edition
in 1767, or the fourth in 1774, or the fifth in 1781; nor till the
sixth, which was published, with considerable additions and
corrections, immediately before the author's death in 1790. The
earlier editions were published at 6s., and the 1790 edition at 12s.
This was the last edition pub