To Lord Hailes from Aberdeen On his return to the north after a long absence, he received three pamphelets sent by Hailes. He has lately looked into poems of Boyd in an old miscellany called Delitta Poetarum Scotarum. Beattie suspect account of Leslie of Monymusk and his pretended kinship to the owners of Monymusk House was fiction. Beattie revising Dissertations for second edition. Possible changes in light of Hailes comments. Expressing censure of Fielding's indelicacy, and doing justice to Le Sage. 26 November 1784