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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 30/1/332
Title	To Robert Arbuthnot from Peterhead
Date	9 July 1792
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 has heard nothing from Dr Dun for the last fortnight. Forbes has made judicious remarks on the manuscript, of which Beattie will make use if Creech sends him the proof sheets. Printing should not be delayed much longer. Beattie asks Arbuthnot to speak to Creech. Thanks Arbuthnot for his kind comments on Elements. He will correct a passage about Bishop Burnett being a good historian. Beattie has been arranging and transcribing James Hay Beattie's papers for publication. Beattie hopes Laing's account of Peterhead will be ready for press before winter. Laing asks to include James Hay Beattie's Horatian ode on Peterhead.
Access Status	Open
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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