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  <dc:title>To Sir William Forbes from Aberdeen</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Thanks for letters of 13 May. Sorry the transaction with Creech and Cadell is giving him so much trouble. Hopes it will now be concluded. Beattie never intended Creech to pay him more than the London price, which thought was half a crown per volume [2s 6d], for the edition of the English poets in sixty-eight volumes. Cadell's conduct is unaccountable and unworthy of a man of business. Beattie has received a hundred copies of James Hay Beattie's Miscellany but has not yet disposed of them because he does not know how our wise people will receive it. On-going discussion with Dr Chapman, formerly Master of Dumfries Grammar School, about the inscription for Blacklock's monument. Forbes will be glad to hear of Sylvester Douglas' good fortune. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 May 1794</dc:date>
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