To Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London, from Aberdeen Second book of the Minstrel will be delivered to Mrs Montagu along with this letter. Asks to keep it until Dr Dilly calls for it. He did not make any alterations to the part that she read last summer and impatient to read her opinion of the other part and the conclusion. The blank in the final stanza is to be filled with the name of Gregory once he sees the public opinion of the poem. Reminds Mrs Montagu of a promise to contribute an essay to the quarto volume, which would help Beattie. Beattie declined offers to be a candidate for Ferguson't Chair as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh 13 March 1774