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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/620
TitleRobert Arbuthnot to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date1 May 1790
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryRobert Arbuthnot [1728-1803] was a member of a distinguished Jacobite/ Episcopalian family. He was brought up and later owned Haddo-Rattray House, north of Peterhead. He was a merchant and then a banker in the firm of Arbuthnot and Guthrie, which failed in 1772. He then moved to Edinburgh where he bacame secretary of the Board for the Encouragement of Manufacturies and Fisheries in Scotland. He befriended Beattie after Beattie moved to Aberdeen in 1758, and became for some years his principal poetic adviser and promoter. He negotiated on Beattie's behalf and often in conjuction with Sir William Forbes, with the booksellers over several of the publications
DescriptionHas read Beattie's letter about James Hay Beattie to Gregory, who says there is no danger. Arbuthnot wants Beattie to write a book about Addison. Gardenstone planning episcopal chapel in Laurencekirk. Not sure whether he means it for nonjurors. Arbuthnot thinks fears about nonjurors unnecessary
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