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  <dc:title>John Scott to James Beattie from London</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sending sheets of his volume to Beattie [evidently poems]. Rowley controversy revived in two octavo volumes by Bryant and a pompous quarto by Dean Milles [Jacob Bryant, Observation upon the poems of ThomasRowley: in which the authenticity of those poems is ascertained (London, 1781); Jeremiah Milles, Poems, supposed to have been written ...by Thomas Rowley...(London, 1782)]. The arguments for antiquity had no weight with Scott when he first read them, and they have been since fully answered by Mr Thomas Warton and others</dc:description>
  <dc:date>30 March 1782</dc:date>
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