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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 30/1/249
Title	To Robert Arbuthnot from Aberdeen
Date	27 February 1786
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	He sends page and advertisement of little book [Evidences]. Please inform Smellie. About thirty pages remain unprinted which Smellie ought to finish this week. There are peculiarites in the advertisement, but the Bishop approves of every word inclusing Beattie's reference to Hunton. Creech has not sent the sheets as requested by Beattie. Beattie has given each proof three separate readings. Bishop of Chester wants two sets handsomely bound and four sets neatly bound to go to him immediately. The two handsome copies are for their Majesties, and the work should not be advertised before they have been presented.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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