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- 1980-1999 (Creation)
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1 ring binder
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Correspondence, articles and press cuttings on David Hume, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.
Contents include: 'Let there be light': Jim Gilchrist on a new Enlightenment, 'Scotsman', 27 February 1999, p 13; 'Her man in Scotland': the Adam Smith Institute, by Ian Bell, 'Observer Scotland', 5 February 1989, p 7; Correspondence with Hyundai Securities (Europe) Ltd re research on Adam Smith, November 1997, 4 pp; Certified copy of the Last Will and Testament of David Hume Esq, 15 April 1776, 5 pp (Photocopy of printed version); Letter from Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy to William Strahan, 9 November 1776, 7 pp, on David Hume (Photocopy of printed version); Press cuttings on Adam Smith, from 'Scotsman', 19 May 1988, Herald, 10 February & 31 July 1989, & 14 July 1990, and 'Independent on Sunday', 13 March 1994; Faxed information from Kenny Munro on Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 7 November 1998; Trafalgar House Offshore Fabrications Ltd Adam Smith Lecture by Donald MacKay, with Biographical notes on Donald Iain MacKay, [c 1993], 8 pp (Photocopy); Review of ‘Crisis of the democratic intellect’, by George Davie, by Murdo Macdonald, 'University of Edinburgh Bulletin', 1980?; 'Adam Ferguson and the idea of community', by Duncan Forbes, undated, 2 pp.
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- English