Record

Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/152
Title	[To Lady Mayne], from Aberdeen
Date	26 September 1778
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
Description	About son's [Montagu] birth and Mrs Beattie ill health. Child has been baptized Montagu , following a promise of seven years standing, and thrives. Brother has become a pretty good Latin scholar. Beattie and Mrs Beattie hope to pass some time at Gordon Castle. Duke of Gordon has been very lucky in his levies : fencibles already exceed a thousand.
Access Status	Open
Physical Description	1 leaf folded
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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