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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/298
TitleSylvester Douglas to James Beattie from London
Date29 October 1777
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistorySylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie [1743-1823] He became Lord Glenbervie in 1800. He was student at King's College where he graduated with an MA in 1765. He took another degree in Leyden in 1766 before he moved to London where he had a distinguished career in law, politics and goverment. He married Lord North's daughter in 1789 and became a Lord of the Treasury. He was close friend to Beattie in the 1760s, and the two remained occasional correspondents after Douglas moved to London
DescriptionParticularly necessary since he went ot the Bar to discover and correct provincial peculiarities of phrase and pronunciation in his own speech. Has made a catalogue of Scoticisms, and put it in a systematic form when he was unwell in the spring. Hume's list subsequently suppressed, and contained several mistakes. Douglas is thinking of writing on it and is glad that Beattie approves. Beattie's list of Scoticisms contains things that had not occurred to Douglas
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