[To Mrs Montagu], from Aberdeen Mrs Beattie's recovery has been slow and with alarming interruptions, and Beattie himself had bilious symptoms which frightened her. They hope to visit Gordon Castle. Thanks Mrs Montagu for the five guineas, but in fact he owed her this sum which she advanced for his advertisement. Sending copy of pamphelet on Psalmody, and explains its origins. Also encloses a Latin translation of the first psalm by his son aged nine years nine months. 22 August 1778