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  <dc:title>Thomas Blacklock to James Beattie from Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerned about Goldsmith's attack (in Natural History) on Colin Maclaurin, late Professor of Mathematics in Ediburgh. Son has had correction leaf inserted. Asks Beattie if there are any copies in libraries of Aberdeen Colleges. A Bishop Hay has written a book approving Roman Catholic doctrines, and quoting Beattie on Truth. Dr Downman praises Beattie in third book of a didactic poem called Infancy</dc:description>
  <dc:date>6 March 1776</dc:date>
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