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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/270
Title	To Margaret Valentine from London
Date	13 July 1787
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	Margaret Valentine [1763-1836]. Beattie's niece, daughter of his sister Jean Valentine. From 1783 she spent increasing amount of time managing Beattie's household, and became his housekeeper in the 1790s. She married George Glennie - Beattie's assistant -in 1797. She inherited Beattie's possessions, including Reynolds portrait
Description	Anxious to hear news of her, Montagu, and Mr and Mrs Wright. An eminent lawyer thinks there will be no difficulty in recovering James [Valentine's] pension when his father provides the necessary details and certificates. James Hay Beattie and the Principal bore the journey well but it was rather hard on Beattie. Lord Sydney informed Beattie that the instrument appointing James Hay Beattie as Beattie's assistant and successor was in the hand of Mr Spottiswoode. The patent had been signed by the King and was just awaiting a final signature from one of the Lords of the Treasury. Beattie presumes that the affair is concluded and the Principal congratulated James Hay Beattie. Two editions of Evidences are sold and a third is going to press. There has also been an Irish edition.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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