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  <dc:title>James Hay Beattie's correspondence</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letters from James Beattie's son, James Hay Beattie, to his father, Major Mercer [presumably James Mercer (bap. 1734, d. 1804), poet and soldier, baptized in Aberdeen], Dr James Dun, Montagu Beattie and Mr George Glennie [professor of moral philosophy at Marischal College from 1796].  Also, one letter, dated 8 June 1789, from Professor Patrick Copland [presumably Patrick Copland (1748 - 1822), natural philosopher and university teacher] to James Hay Beattie and a poem from James Hay, dated 28 February 1788.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1774 - 1790</dc:date>
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