To William Creech from Aberdeen Acknowledges first volume of Biographica Britannica and six volumes of new edition of Tatler. Will be some time before he can make use of them because of dizziness and confusion of thought. In Tatler, and in other edition of later authors, too much propensity to note-making, copied from Dutch commentators on classics. Words of annotators should be few and well chosen. Scoticism should be printed more compact than on specimen. Asks Creech to send sheets so he can correct them, and not to tell anyone Beattie is the author. 21 February 1787