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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 30/2/674
TitleRobert Arbuthnot to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date29 September 1792
Extent2 Items
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
DescriptionEncloses letter from George Thomson [see note]. Explains Thomson's background: clerck in Trustee office. Has large family and hopes for pecuniary benefit from his intended publication. Hopes Beattie will comply with Thomson's request if health permits. Death of Mr William Tyler, aged eighty-one. Told Arbuthnot when he last saw him he wished Arbuthnot could persuade Beattie to finish Minstrel
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionIt encloses the end part of the letter in Fettercairn Box 99/3
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