rial mind, for a
Spanish translation by J.A. Ortez was published in four volumes in
1794, with additions relating to Spain.

Smith continued, as he says, to be a good customer for his own book.
There is another letter which, though undated and unaddressed, was
evidently written about this time to Cadell, directing presentation
copies of both his books to be sent to Mrs. Ross of Crighton, the wife
of his own "very near relation," Colonel Patrick Ross.

DEAR SIR--Mrs. Ross of Crighton, now living in Welbeck
Street, is my particular friend, and the wife of
Lieutenant-Collonel (_sic_) Patrick Ross, in the service of
the East India Company, my very near relation. When she left
this she seemed to intimate that she wished to have a copy
of my last book from the author. May I therefore beg the
favour of you to send her a copy of both my books, viz. of
the Theory of Moral Sentiments and of the Enquiry concerning
the "Wealth of Nations," handsomely bound and gilt, placing
the same to my account, and writing upon the blank-leaf of
each, _From the Authour_. Be so good as to remember me to
Mrs. Cadell, Mr. Strahan and family, and all other friends,
and believe me, ever yours,

ADAM SMITH.[312]

Smith's new duties did not pre-engage his pen from higher work
altogether, for before the close of 1782 he had written some
considerable additions to the _Wealth of Nations_, which he proposed
to insert in the third edition, among them a history of the trading
companies of Great Britain, including, no doubt, his history of the
East India Company, which Mr. Thorold Rogers supposed him to have
written ten years before and kept in his desk. He writes Cadell on the
7th December 1782:--

I have many apologies to make to you for my idleness since I
came to Scotland. The truth is, I bought at London a good
many partly new books or editions that were new to me, and
the amusement I found in reading and diverting myself with
them debauched me from my proper business, the preparing a
new edition of the _Wealth of Nations_. I am now, however,
heartily engaged at my proper work, and I hope in two or
three months to send you up the second edition corrected in
many places, with three or four very considerable additions,
chiefly to the second volume. Among the rest is a short but,
I flatter myself, a complete history of all the