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  <dc:title>To William Creech from Aberdeen</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Balance of account is £18-4-0 in Beattie's favour. Please pay to Forbes. Forbes will send him in a few days Essays and Fragments in Prose and Verse. Compiled from son's papers. Sent to Creech as friend of the author, whom Creech often saw in Edinburgh. Not published, but a few copies printed for friends. English pieces have great merit, but Latin poems are the most curious, particularly Pope's 'Messiah', 'Elegy on an unfortunate Lady', and 'Sir Balaam'. Style of translation rare since classical ages-literal but elegant and harmonious. Beattie could easily have made miscellany larger. Please to ask Cadell to send account - unreasonable of him to withold it so long. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>14 April 1794</dc:date>
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