Correspondence of Joseph Black III

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Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with Adam Smith (1723-1790), George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732-1818) and Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808).

1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1785-1793)

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Note: larger items from this series are held in box Gen.875.

Archivist's Note

Grant Buttars 04 February 2002

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Professional Interaction

Social Interaction

Personal Names

Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (physician)

Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)

Dempster, George, 1732-1818 (agriculturalist)

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 (Scottish economist, philosopher, author)