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  <dc:title>Charles Dilly to James Beattie from London</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Kincaid worthy, but past the time for an active part in the business. Bell has to manage printing and vending. Agreable to Beattie's direction has sent Minstrel to print a second edition on a fine paper. Dilly understands little if any profit can arise from the first edition of 500 printed at Edinburgh. Five hundred copies of Essay on Truth will be sold by June. Bell has shipped 200 more </dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 May 1771</dc:date>
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