Asd Addas

Appendix

• Introduction

• Early Draft of Part of the Wealth of Nations

• | Chap. 2.: Of the Nature and Causes of Public Opulence.

• Contents of the Following Chapters.

• Of the Cultivation By Slaves.

• | of the Cultivation of the Antient Metayers, Or Tenants By Steelbow.y

• Of the Cultivation By Farmers Properly So Called.

• First Fragment On the Division of Labour

• Second Fragment On the Division of Labour

APPENDIX

INTRODUCTION

The first of the three documents in this Appendix was discovered by Professor W. R. Scott and published by him with annotations and comments, under the title ‘An Early Draft of Part of The Wealth of Nations’, in his Adam Smith as Student and Professor.1 The circumstances of his discovery of ED, and the physical characteristics of the document, are fully described by Scott in this work,2 and only one point needs to be added here. Scott identified the handwriting with that of the College scribe who wrote in 1762 a report of a committee on the powers of the Rector and Principal.3 We can confirm his judgement in that identification, and can add a further identification with a manuscript written in 1759. This is a revision of TMS, intended for inclusion in edition 2, and in the hand of the same amanuensis.4

The other two documents are fragments on the division of labour (FA and FB), which were also discovered by Scott (‘amongst letters which belonged to Adam Smith’)5 and published by him—in facsimile, and without annotations or extensive comments—in Adam Smith as Student and Professor.6 In physical appearance, FA consists of a single folio sheet of four pages (each page measuring 203 × 315 mm.), with the text extending almost, but not quite, to the bottom of the last page. FB consists of a single folio sheet of the same size and format, with the text covering rather more than two and one–half pages. The two documents were evidently written in the same hand, and have the same watermark....