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  <dc:title>Robert Arbuthnot to James Beattie from Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>About helping Cooper. Arbuthnot does not really approve of changes to his aunt Mrs Arbuthnot's house. Liked toss and tumble of books - Shaftesbury and Butler beside each other. Dalzell has Aeneid discourse which was highly commended. Intention to publish it in second volume of Philosophical Transactions. Arbuthnot sent Evidences to son William in West Indies. Does Beattie intend to publish James Hay Beattie's didactic poem? Wonderful performance showing poetic genius, and knowledge in philosophy rare in someone twice his age</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 April 1788</dc:date>
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