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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 30/1/248A
Title	To William Creech, from Aberdeen
Date	29 December 1785
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	William Creech [1745-1815] Bookseller in Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh University, and originally intended to enter medicine, but was apprenticed to bookseller Alexander Kincaid in 1764, becoming Kincaid partner when the latter's partnership with John Bell dissolved in 1771 - just after the firm had published the first edition of the first book of the Minstrel. His shop became a well-known meeting place, and he published the work of many of the Scottish literati. Beattie had a long and generally happy relationship with him from 1771, both personally and in business matters
Description	He began to suspect that his book was considered at the printing house as a sort of by-work. At first complained in genral terms but things went on getting worse and he found out that the more he remostrated the more he was neglected. Beattie did not know who the printer was and could only apply to Creech, to whom he had directed every proof. Does not complain of the execution of the printing and Beattie is happy to leave it in the printers's hands if he will commit himself under the penalty to send four sheets (sixty-four pages) every week until it is finished. Beattie has never before met such studied, long continued and contemptuous delay.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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