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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/211
Alt Ref NoMS 30 c.211
TitleWilliam Creech to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date10 October 1774
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryWilliam Creech [1745-1815] Bookseller in Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh University, and originally intended to enter medicine, but was apprenticed to bookseller Alexander Kincaid in 1764, becoming Kincaid partner when the latter's partnership with John Bell dissolved in 1771 - just after the firm had published the first edition of the first book of the Minstrel. His shop became a well-known meeting place, and he published the work of many of the Scottish literati. Beattie had a long and generally happy relationship with him from 1771, both personally and in business matters
DescriptionHad tried to visit Beattie, and is mortified at Beattie's frequent disasters. Presses him to come to Edinburgh, where they will take better care of him. Second part of Minstrel has appeared in London Monthly Review. Creech will give Priestley's mass of petulance and ribaldry severe trimming in first magazine. Asks for return of Latin translation of "The Hermit" to insert in magazine
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