Letter from Montagu Beattie to James Beattie Letter from Montagu Beattie, ?Mary Culture, to James Beattie, Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, referring to James Beattie's last letter and mentioning that his father had given him some advice. Letter talks about Montagu's reading of Virgil's 'Second Geogick' and the second 'Chorde of Horace'. Montagu mentions the deaths of Jean Valentine and Miss Mary Hutcheson. Montagu explains: "I would not have sent you a letter so ill written, but I have been out fishing all day, and my hands are cold and not in a condition to write. M. B." 20 April 1793