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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/311
Title	To William Laing from Aberdeen
Date	13 August 1790
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	William Laing [1742-1812]. Student at Marischal College 1762-1766 and Beattie's pupil in 1765-1766. He was Master at Aberdeen Grammar School in 1770-1771. Beattie secured his appointment as episcopal minister at Peterhead in 1771. He had studied Medicine, although he did not obtain any qualification, but in 1782, on Beattie's recommendation, he was awarded an MD degree of Marischal College. He remained a close friend of Beattie until the latter's death
Description	He had hired a sloop intending to sail to Montrose, rest there for a day or two and then sail back to Aberdeen. James Hay Beattie now became very ill with seasickness and extreme debility, and wished to go back. James Hay Beattie cannot now endure the idea of going to sea again. He is so enfeebled that that he can hardly walk up and down the stairs. Beattie thanks Laing for phial of elixir which James Forrest has just brought. Asks Laing to come but not to speak too much of the sea expedition.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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