Friend of David Hume and professor of logic at Glasgow University (1751); he wrote Theory of the Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of Nations (1776).

REFERENCES TO Adam Smith:

Robert Southey to John Rickman, 20 November 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [12 June] 1805 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 1807 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, [October 1808] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [November] 1810 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Holland to Thomas Creevey, 4 July 1817 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 26 July 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 21 October 1820 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 12 April 1827 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)