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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/310
TitleWilliam Laing to James Beattie from Peterhead
Date10 June 1778
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryWilliam Laing [1742-1812]. Student at Marischal College 1762-1766 and Beattie's pupil in 1765-1766. He was Master at Aberdeen Grammar School in 1770-1771. Beattie secured his appointment as episcopal minister at Peterhead in 1771. He had studied Medicine, although he did not obtain any qualification, but in 1782, on Beattie's recommendation, he was awarded an MD degree of Marischal College. He remained a close friend of Beattie until the latter's death
DescriptionWaiting with impatience a sight of Beattie's letter to Blair. Refers to low imitation of a Beattie elegy in Scots Magazine, written at Peterhead, by a poor man whose wife had died. Laing could niether prevent them him publishing it, nor get him to make it more worthy of publication
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