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  <dc:title>Elizabeth Montagu to James Beattie from London</dc:title>
  <dc:description>High praise for Elements. Matthew Montagu has every day attended committee on slave trade. Sir Joshua Reynolds and affairs of Royal Academy. alison's work much approved [archibald Alison, Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste, (Edinburgh, 1790)], and Mrs Montagu hopes it may commend him for some benefice. Mr Pulteney has not fulfilled his promise of one. State of affairs in France </dc:description>
  <dc:date>20 April 1790</dc:date>
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