John Pinkerton to James Beattie from Knightbridge No. 3 Glad to hear Beattie publishing Minstrel again. Wishes he would finish it - another canto of sixty stanzas might do the business. Criticises stanzas on progress of science, and on Homer and Virgil, since no Minstrel would be acquainted with these subjects. Others have made the same criticism. Mock credit and debit account showing how Beattie would gain from completing Minstrel 20 March 1784