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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 30/1/257
Title	To Robert Arbuthnot from Aberdeen
Date	23 September 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 was fatigued by journey to Montrose when he saw Forbes. He wanted to know if Creech's edition of Addison will proceed. Illness prevented Beattie from writing the preface, but he has not dropped the design for it. Asks new opinions on Evidences. He has heard little from those to whom he sent copies. Cadell wrote three months ago that the second edition was going to press, but Beattie has not yet seen it. Now time to settle affair of copy money. Last spring he wrote dissertation on Virgil's account of Aenea's descent into the underworld. Fears it is too long for the Royal Society. He will order a copy of Scoticism to be trancribed for Arbuthnot and sent to him soon.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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