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  <dc:title>Robert Arbuthnot to James Beattie from Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Encloses letter from George Thomson [see note]. Explains Thomson's background: clerck in Trustee office. Has large family and hopes for pecuniary benefit from his intended publication. Hopes Beattie will comply with Thomson's request if health permits. Death of Mr William Tyler, aged eighty-one. Told Arbuthnot when he last saw him he wished Arbuthnot could persuade Beattie to finish Minstrel</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 September 1792</dc:date>
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