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  <dc:title>Letter from Mary Beattie to Lady Mayne</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter from Mary Beattie, Aberdeen, to Lady Mayne, thanking Lady Mayne for her last letter; telling her about Mrs Beattie's poor health and asking about the health of Lady Mayne, Lord Newhaven and Miss Graham.  Letter mentions the alarming state of public affairs; Mr Beattie's poor health and congratulates Lady Mayne's purchase of a new house.  Mrs Beattie writes about Mrs Montagu's letter to Mr Beattie; Miss Reynolds and asks about Miss Cooper.  Also letter talks about Mrs Beattie's son, James Hay Beattie; Miss Graham and how Lady Mayne should soon get away from London to Gatton Park.  Mrs Beattie writes about Lord Erroll's poor health - his suffering from Dropsy and the Beatties' seeing the Dutchess of Gordon.  Letter mentions the Duke of Gordon recruiting officers; the Duke, Dutchess and Marquis of Gordon dining with the Beatties and their lending of the Marquis's little horse to the Beatties' son.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2 June 1778</dc:date>
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