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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/244
Title	To Lord Hailes from Aberdeen
Date	26 November 1784
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes [1726-1796]. Lawyer and historian, living at Newhailes, near Edinburgh. Enthusiastic supporter of Beattie and his writings. He succesfully persuaded Beattie to be a candidate for the Chair of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh in 1774
Description	On his return to the north after a long absence, he received three pamphelets sent by Hailes. He has lately looked into poems of Boyd in an old miscellany called Delitta Poetarum Scotarum. Beattie suspect account of Leslie of Monymusk and his pretended kinship to the owners of Monymusk House was fiction. Beattie revising Dissertations for second edition. Possible changes in light of Hailes comments. Expressing censure of Fielding's indelicacy, and doing justice to Le Sage.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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