Putting the Enlightened Self Together: William Smellie’s Literary and Characteristical Lives (1800)
摘要
In a letter to Alexander Smellie dated September 13, 1795, Maria Riddell, William Smellie’s intellectual protégée, expresses her worry concerning the unpublished manuscripts of Alexander’s recently deceased father. An avid natural historian herself, Riddell was particularly anxious about the second part of Smellie’s Philosophy of Natural History, the volume he was trying to publish just before he died. Riddell offers some interesting advice: