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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
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Ref NoMS 30/2/698
TitleAlexander Fraser Tytler to James Beattie from Edinburgh
Date12 November 1793
Extent1 item
Administrative HistoryAlexander Fraser Tytler [1747-1813] historian, writer and lawyer, son of William Tytler, later Lord Woodhouselee
DescriptionAbout Tytler's Essay on the Principles of Translation (London, 1791), and Campbell's letter to Creech suspecting plagiarsim from his preface to translation of gospels. Has written to Campbell exonerating himself. Question of Beattie writing life of Tytler's father. Tytler does not like account of him by Mr Anderson in European Magazine.
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