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This book has been a long time in the making and I have incurred many debts along the way. My first thanks must go to Alex Murdoch who originally suggested the 3rd Duke and Adam Smith as a possible area of research and went on to be such an exemplary supervisor of the resulting doctoral thesis. I also owe a great debt to my second supervisor, Nick Phillipson, whose enthusiasm and intellectual generosity greatly enhanced my understanding of Smith and his relationship with the Duke. The examiners of my thesis, Chris Smout and Harry Dickinson, provided insightful suggestions and encouragement, as did, at various stages, Chris Whatley, Stana Nenadic, and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson. My particular thanks are due to Andrew Mackillop for his unstinting help over a number of years in getting this book finally into print.
The vast majority of the archival research for this book was drawn from the remarkable Buccleuch Muniments and I would like to thank the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, not only for his kind permission to consult his family papers, but also for his warm hospitality at Drumlanrig and his enthusiasm for the project. My thanks are also due to the staff at the various archives and libraries consulted during my research for their help and generous assistance, and to Cameron Manson of Buccleuch Estates for kindly taking the time to show me round Dalkeith House and estate. I would also like to gratefully acknowledge the scholarship from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland which funded my initial research, and also to thank the Scottish Historical Review Trust and everyone at Edinburgh University Press for their assistance in publishing this book.
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