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MS 30 - James Beattie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic, poet, essayist and moral philosopher: papers
- 1 - James Beattie's copy letters

Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/243
Title	To Robert Arbuthnot from Peterhead
Date	27 October 1784
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	Robert 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
Description	Mrs Arbuthnot gratitude for Mrs Montagu's beatutiful letter. Duchess of Gordon not a friend of the nonjurors, though their priests and patrons may have been trying to insinuate this. Election of Mr Stephen as pastor to the chapel of Cruden. Beattie's concern at increase of nonjurors on Lord Erroll's estate. Beattie's principles would not allow him to hurt them, but he loves peace, the King and his country, and they are enemies of all three. The nonjurors whom Arbuthnot formerly knew in this corner were very different from present race.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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