| Administrative History | Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1743 - 1823), politician and diarist, was born in Fechil, Aberdeenshire. He returned to London in 1769, switched from medicine to the law, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1771. |
| Description | Letters to Beattie from various correspondents, including Lady Errol, Robert Arbuthnot, Edward Jerningham [Edward Jerningham (1737 - 1812), poet and playwright], Mrs Montagu, Lord Buchan [?David Steuart Erskine, eleventh earl of Buchan (1742 - 1829), antiquary and political reformer], Dowager Duchess of Portland [?Margaret Cavendish Bentinck [née Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley], duchess of Portland (1715 - 1785), collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences], Jane, Duchess of Gordon, Principal Campbell [George Campbell (1719 - 1796), Church of Scotland minister and college head and original member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society], and others. |