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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 30/1/301
Title	To Robert Arbuthnot from Aberdeen
Date	19 November 1789
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 asks Arbuthnot if he sould go ahead with new plan for preface to Sibbald's edition of parts of Addison's prose works. Should he write notes to Tickell's life and Johnson's character of Addison? He needs an answer quickly bacause he is busy and does not want to do something inconsistent with the views of the publishers. The plan is very different now from what he once thought it was. His original plan for a biographical and critical essay on Addison's prose would not be appropriate to the present purpose. Sibbald has sent Beattie list of the numbers of the Freeholder he intended to include.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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