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  <dc:title>Cosmo Gordon to James Beattie from Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Approves Dundas plan. Question of whether Beattie should resign, and he and James Hay Beattie be jointly appointed, with survivorship; or James Hay Beattie be appointed assistant and successor without Beattie's resignation. Gordon favours the second which removes doubt about James Hay Beattie's age. But either way no difficulty. Bute should be informed in courtesy. Union goes slowly. Beattie's paper will be printed by Royal Society.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 April 1787</dc:date>
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