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  <dc:title>Thomas Gordon to James Beattie from Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Answers Beattie's queries about the writer's father, of whom Beattie has said he will write a memoir. He was born 24 January 1722 at Lonmay, where his father was minister. Witnessed battle of Culloden. [Thomas Gordon senior's posthmous Plain Sermons on Practical Subjects (2 vols, Edinburgh 1786) has 'Account on the Author by James Beattie]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>5 September 1785</dc:date>
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