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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/15
Title	To Dr Gregory, Edinburgh, from Aberdeen
Date	1 July 1768
Extent	1 item
Administrative History	John Gregory [1724-1773] One of a dinasty of professors of medicine at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He succeded his brother in the chair of medicine at King's College in 1755. He was a close friend and mentor of Beattie. In 1752 he married Elizabeth, daughter of William, Lord Forbes. In 1764 Gregory moved to a more lucrative chair and practice in Edinburgh, but he and Beattie remained intimate friends
Description	Re: his Discourse on the Permanency of Moral Sentiment and his illness; an account of the form and content of The Minstrel, of which the first Canto is completed; recommendation of 2 sets of songs lately published by Mr Jackson of Exeter; Foulis' magnificent edition of Gray's Poems; his own few Scotch verses in recommendation of a poem published in the broad Scotch dialect by an acquaintance, with some discussion of the Scotch tongue; expressing some disappointment in Wilkie's Fables 1 August addendum: re a benefit concert proposed in Edinburgh for Olivieri, expressing appreciation of the man and his music
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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