| 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 | Elements needed for students in class. He has written new advertisement, since Creech not entirely satisfied with previous one. Campbell, whose imprimatur Beattie always seeks, is well pleased with it. Asks creech, as soon as it is finished, to send forty copies in sheets for sutdents in class, who will need them eight or ten days hence. He has received sheets up to p. 368 and is revising them. |