To Mrs Montagu, from Aberdeen Up-dates on Mrs Beattie's health and sons lives. Main occupation is correcting and writing essays on moral and philosophical issues, but he does not think to write for publication. He regrets the loss of Edward Dilly with whom he never had a dissention in almost ten years they worked together as bookseller and author. On Hume's writings and his postumous publication. 25 June 1779