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  <dc:title>[To the Duchess of Gordon], Aberdeen</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Thanks Duchess for kind concern about Mrs Beattie's recovery. Critical days all past, and she and Montagu doing well. James Hay Beattie will be back home tomorrow. Duchess' very generous attentions to Ross of Lochlee will furnish him with matter of talk and triumph for the remainder of his life. Beattie would have been delighted to hear him read Gray's Elegy. As he has not often seen any elegant poetry, it could not be expected that he would enter into all the beautiful seniments of that piece; but the lines quoted by the Duchess could not fail to strike him.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 July 1778</dc:date>
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