Record

Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/92
Title	To Lady Mayne, London, from Aberdeen
Date	22 March 1775
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	Very poor health for last two months has obliged him to lay aside reading and writing. Quarto must must be laid aside till next winter and Mrs Montagu will have shown Lady Mayne the proposed card explaining this to subscribers. Will bring papers for the volume to the Maynes for their opinion. Could answer everything in Priestly's book about himelf if he had a few weeks of good health. Materials are ready, and Beattie has asked one of his scholars to do it if he dies. But all Priestley's arguments are already answered in the Essay.
Access Status	Open
Physical Description	1 leaf folded; seal. Hole at edge
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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