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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/642
TitleRobert Arbuthnot to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date18 February 1791
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
DescriptionQuestions of letters of John Bruce. Campbell recovering. Duke of Gordon had favoured Copland, but Baron gordon wrote to Duchess strongly recommending Beattie for the possible post [Principalship]. Burke on French revolution praised, with long anecdote about the King praising Burke at court
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