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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/614
TitleWilliam Creech to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date12 February 1790
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
DescriptionHas sent parcel of 'copies' by ship, but Elements not yet published in London. Cadell against publishing first volume without second. Addison will be ready for publication in ten days. Beattie should not scruple to let it be known he wrote the notes
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