Record

Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/207
Title	To Dr Porteous, Bishop of Chester, …, from Gordon Castle
Date	17 June 1782
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	Beilby Porteus [1731-1809]. Rector of Lambeth and chaplain to the King in 1769. He was Bishop of Chester between 1776 and 1787 and Bishop of London in 1787-1808. He sent Beattie a copy of his sermons and expressed great admiration for Beattie's Essay on truth and The Minstrel. They met during Beattie's visit to London in 1773, and Porteus became a lifelong friend and supporter
Description	About his visit at Gordon Castle and the treaty on Theory of Language. He thinks he has made some original contributions and that it will go to press in about six weeks to become a quarto volume of equal size to his last one.
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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