MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. Remonstrating on what he had written to Herbert: satisfactory progress of the Iconographia Scotica : thanks for Lord EARL OF ORFORD TO MR. PINKERTON. Respecting a portrait of James IV., and the Iconographia Scotica, and some portraits falsely named in Grammont's SIR JOSEPH BANKS TO MR. PINKERTON. Regrets bis inability to forward his views respecting the British Museum.-Feb. 1, 1795. EARL OF ORFORD TO MR. PINKERTON. On the same subject as the preceding.–Feb. 5, 1795. Pointing out some Scotch portraits, and putting two historical MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. On the Iconographia Scotica, and the prejudices of the Scotch MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. 385 Farther particulars respecting the Iconographia Scotica.- MR. JAMES SCOTT TO MR. JAMES WRIGHT, Respecting a portrait of the first Earl of Kinnoul and a series of portraits at Scone Palace.-Aug. 3, 1795. MR. J. C. WALKER TO MR. PINKERTON. On some portraits of the Grammont family; the death of Dr. Campbell; and his own intention of publishing a tour MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. 392 On the progress of the Iconographia Scotica.-Sept. 25, 1795. MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. 392 Discovery of a portrait of James IV. with a falcon on his fist.–Oct. 19, 1795. With much curious antiquarian information.—Dec. 15, 1795. Terms offered for the copy-right of the History of Scotland.- Particulars of a manuscript of Fordun's Scotichronicon in MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. 398 Full of complaints and irritability about the Iconographia MR. CONSTABLE TO MR. PINKERTON. Respecting books printed in Scotland between 1650 and 1660, and artists at Edinburgh.—March 20, 1796. Allows of his copying the monument of Earl Douglas in his Tour, and acknowledges that his portrait of Cardinal Beaton is not genuine.- April 30, 1796. MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. 402 Respecting portraits of Sir Robert Murray and other eminent SIR JOHN SINCLAIR TO MR. PINKERTON. 404 EARL OF BREADALBANE TO MR. PINKERTON. 410 Respecting the portraits by Jameson at Taymouth.—May 28, MR. PINKERTON TO THE EARL OF BUCHAN. 412 Upon the subject of the Iconographia Scotica.-May 30, 1796. SIR WILLIAM QUSELEY TO MR. PINKERTON. Respecting bis projected translation of Sadi's Bostan, and Ne- zami's History of Alexander and his Persian Miscellanies.- · MR. OGILVIE TO MR. PINKERTON. MR. J. C. WALKER TO MR. PINKERTON. His increasing fondness for Italian literature, and his opinion MR. A, STUART TO MR. PINKERTON. Respecting a charter granted by Sir John Stuart to the Abbot MR. J. C. WALKER TO MR. PINKERTON. Sending a translation of some Irish romances, and criticising MR. M. LAING TO MR. PINKERTON. On the Gowrie conspiracy.--Jan. 17, 1797. Announces the publication of his History of Scotland.-Jan. MR. PINKERTON TO MR. M. LAING. His own intention of publishing a tract on the Gowrie Conspi. racy, and recommendations to Mr. Laing to write a History of MR. M. LAING TO MR. PINKERTON. Anecdotes concerning the Gowrie Conspiracy: a history of Scotland during the Commonwealth would be uninteresting: Acknowledging the receipt of bis History.-Feb. 16, 1797. CORRESPONDENCE. DR. BEATTIE TO MR. PINKERTON.* Aberdeen, December 13th, 1775. I have been so much engrossed with business and bad health, that till this day I could not find leisure to answer your very obliging letter. Your intention of inscribing to me your poem on Craigmillar Castle, does me much more honor than I have any title to. Please to accept of my best thanks for this instance of your kind partiality, and for the obliging manner in which you speak of what I have attempted in poetry. There are many good lines in your poem; but, * At the time of writing the letter to which this is an answer, Mr. Pinkerton was in his clerkship to Mr. Aytoun of Edinburgh, and was only seventeen years old. The Elegy on Craigmillar Castle was published in 1776, with a dedication to Dr. Beattie, who acknowledges the favor and the receipt of four copies, in a letter dated 20th July, 1776, but not published here. VOL. I. A to appear. when you have kept it by you a week or two, I fanoy you will not think it correct enough as yet in public. Young poets are very apt to publish their pieces immediately on writing them out; but they ought always to keep them for a year, or at least for several months, and revise them from time to time. I have erred in this way myself, and therefore can warn them from my own experience. You will see I have been very free in my remarks, which I hope you will excuse; for I did it with a most friendly intention. On these occasions, I think it is the duty of a friend to be as critical as possible. I heartily wish you success in your studies, and am with much regard and esteem. DR. BEATTIE TO MR. PINKERTON.. Aberdeen, March 9th, 1776. I thank you for taking in so good part the freedom of my former criticism: I hope the present will not offend you. I have been for some time past in a very bad state of health ; afflicted • To this letter I have annexed the critical annotations of Dr. Beattie, to show at oncé some of the most striking errors of a young author, and the remarks of so able a critic and so distinguished a poet as the author of The Minstrel. Many other of the letters are accompanied with even longer series of remarks, but I have not felt it to be desirable to introduce them. |