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  <dc:title>[To Mrs Montagu], from Aberdeen</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Health issues. Thanks to Mrs Montagu for the trouble taken with the volume of poems that Dilly put in her hands, but blushes that Dilly also gave her the other volume printed by Johnston about twelve years ago [Poems on Several Subjects]. Beattie hoped it had long ago fallen into the oblivion which it deserves, which it should after the solemn renunciation that Beattie has made of it in the preface of the new edition of The Minstrel . Beattie's notions of good writing has undergone considerable change in the last twelve years. Thanks to Mrs Montagu for account of reception of new Essay. Prepared the Essay for a new edition during the winter which is now in the press. A print of Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait of Mrs Montagu does honour to a little group of friends which are the chief ornament of his parlour.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>20 April 1778</dc:date>
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