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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/66
Alt Ref NoMs 30 c.66
TitleWilliam Mason to James Beattie from York
Date17 October 1771
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryWilliam Mason [1724-1797] Poet, Canon of York, friend and biographer of Thomas Gray
DescriptionLate melancholy employment of reviewing Gray's papers. Found nine letters of Beattie's which he offers to return. Praises Minstrel and Essay on Truth and asks if more of Mintrel to be published soon. Hume a pestiferous writer who disgraced Scotland
Access StatusOpen
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