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MS 30 - James Beattie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic, poet, essayist and moral philosopher: papers
2 - Correspondence to James Beattie
Collection
GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
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Ref No
MS 30/2/725
Title
Lady Newshaven to James Beattie
Date
15 October 1794
Extent
1 Item
Administrative History
Lady (Frances) Mayne, later Lady Newhaven [d. 1801]. Wife of Sir William Mayne. Formerly Frances Allen, the heiress of a considerable estate in Ireland. She kept up a correspondence with Beattie and his wife for some years
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Has been a widow for four months. Lady Dashwood has lost two youngest children of croup. Kindness of Princess Elizabeth to Dashwoods. Lady Newhaven has taken a house near Windsor to watch over morals of two young boys staying at eton. Thanks for James Hay Beattie book
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