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  <dc:title>To Sir David Dalrymple, Edinburgh, from Aberdeen</dc:title>
  <dc:description>He has just received from Edinburgh the valuable present of Remains of Christian Antiquity. Feel he must account for the use of his time. His doctors tells him that a return to former studies would lead to inevitable destruction. Composition brings on pains and nervous complaints, but he has been transcribing a few things written long ago and read to his class. Moral essays on a variety of subjects relating to politics, criticism and the philosophy of human nature. Will send Lord Hailes a copy of pamphelet on psalmody. Beattie is impatient for another volume of Annals of Scotland. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>20 August 1778</dc:date>
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