Record

Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/144
Title	[To the Duchess of Gordon], Aberdeen
Date	19 July 1778
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	Jane Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon from 1767, when she married the Duke. The nature of the relationship with Beattie with her is problematic, and one aspect of Mrs Beattie's mental disorder was thought to be the intense jealuousy for Beattie's attachement to the Duchess
Description	Thanks Duchess for kind concern about Mrs Beattie's recovery. Critical days all past, and she and Montagu doing well. James Hay Beattie will be back home tomorrow. Duchess' very generous attentions to Ross of Lochlee will furnish him with matter of talk and triumph for the remainder of his life. Beattie would have been delighted to hear him read Gray's Elegy. As he has not often seen any elegant poetry, it could not be expected that he would enter into all the beautiful seniments of that piece; but the lines quoted by the Duchess could not fail to strike him.
Access Status	Open
Physical Description	1 leaf folded
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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