| Description Of Item | Addressed to William Hamilton. He asks on behalf of a friend what additions Dr Irvine [William Irvine] made to Dr Black's doctrines and whether a thesis had ever been written on Dr Irvine's opinions. He also asks for Hamilton's opinion on the dispute between Dr Irvine and Adair Crawford on the priority of discovery. He writes about the delay in the portrait of Dr Hunter by Sir Joshua Reynolds. |