William Creech to James Beattie from Edinburgh Apologizes for delays answering letters. Forbes has read him a passage about Beattie's new work [Elements]. Creech would not want any work of Dr Beattie to come out without Creech's name. 'Therefore to me, my Dear Sir, make your own terms'. Wants it in quarto, not duodecimo. Small edition would yeld little and not to be respectable. Wants only to add to Beattie's fame and emolument. Johonson's Poets came safe to hand 19 March 1789