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  <dc:title>Lord Gardenstone to James Beattie from Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Gardenstone offers Beattie tenancy of house and farm of Johnstons at Laurencekirk. 'I would prefer you to any other tenant, and make you an offer of it'. Beattie's draft reply: thanks Gardenstone but declines. Too far from city. He though he would like a place of retirement there, but no longer</dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 May 1781</dc:date>
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